ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,216, issued on March 11, was assigned to THALES DIS FRANCE SAS (Meudon, France).

"Method for authenticating a user at a user equipment" was invented by Frederic Dao (Gemenos, France), Thomas Dandelot (Gemenos, France), Frederic Paillart (Gemenos, France), Frederic Faure (Gemenos, France) and Fabrice Delhoste (Gemenos, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for authentication of a user using a user equipment, comprising an authentication engine for authenticating at least one user, said authentication engine being configured to operate with a local authentication model, wherein the method comp...