ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,626, issued on May 27, was assigned to Prove Identity Inc. (New York).

"Device authentication via high-entropy token" was invented by Jeffrey Robert Naujok (Colorado Springs, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Briefly, example methods, apparatuses, and/or articles of manufacture may be implemented to authenticate a communicating device via a communications network. One embodiment may include obtaining, at the communicating device, signals representative of one or more high-entropy tokens via the communications network, the one or more high-entropy tokens including one or more component tokens. The method may additionally include en...