ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,415, issued on June 3, was assigned to Stratocore S.A.S. (St Piat, France).

"Method for authorizing access to an instrument" was invented by Mathieu Marchand (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for controlling access to an instrument (110) that is coupled to an interlock (112) device that controls access to the instrument (110), in which a user time-based one-time password that is unique to each user or project is periodically generated (312). A set of instrument time-based one-time passwords that correspond to each user time-based one-time password for the instrument is periodically generated (320). The set of instrum...