ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,134, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University (PSAU) (Al Kharj, Saudi Arabia).

"Lightweight authentication service, system and method for computing devices and user equipment" was invented by Thamer Almoneef (Al Kharj, Saudi Arabia), Haya Alaskar (Al Kharj, Saudi Arabia), Saqib Amin (Islamabad) and Muddassar Farooq (Islamabad).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to a lightweight authentication service, system and method that securely authenticates the identity of a secure user equipment (UE) or a device in a communication network system. The service and associated methods work by cre...