ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,837, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to RAJARAJESWARI SUNDARAM (Chennai, India).

"Electronic signal based authentication system and method thereof" was invented by Sundaram Subramanian (Chennai, India) and Srikanth Krishnaswamy (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to the field of authentication systems. More particularly, it relates to electronic signal-based authentication system. It relates to authentication system which integrates into devices in electro-mechanical systems without interfering with any of its internal functions and hence provides ease of maintenance and upgradability. The prese...