US Patent Issued to NXP on Jan. 28 for "Method and device for challenge-response authentication" (Austrian, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,660, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Method and device for challenge-response authentication" was invented by Nikita Veshchikov (Brussels) and Christian Schwar (Graz, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for challenge-response authentication between a verifier and a prover. In the method, a challenge is received from the verifier, the challenge for verifying an identity of the prover. The challenge is computed using a first verifier key. The prover computes a response to the challenge using a first prover key. The prover also computes a delay time for delaying transmission...