ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,998, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to SPINTLY INC. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"System and method for storing and validating credentials to access a restricted area" was invented by Rohin Parkar (Ponda, India), Brosnan Gomes (Margao, India), Marc Miranda (Panaji, India) and Malcolm Dsouza (Margao, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system (100) for storing and validating credentials comprising: access devices (104) wirelessly coupled to one another, wherein the access devices (104) comprises memories (122) such that the memories (122) are configured to store user credential information derived from a unique user identifier associated w...