ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,166, issued on May 20, was assigned to TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"Method and system for service authentication in an airport management network" was invented by Jayavardhana Rama Gubbi Lakshminarasimha (Bangalore, India), Raj Anil Chaudhari (Bangalore, India), Meena Singh Dilip Thakur (Bangalore, India), Balamuralidhar Purushothaman (Bangalore, India), Rajan Mindigal Alasingara Bhattachar (Bangalore, India) and Sivakumar Kuppusamy Santhanam (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "State of the art systems used for airport automation and data processing may be prone to data security related issues, as unaut...