US Patent Issued to University of South Carolina on April 22 for "Mutual authentication techniques for drone delivery" (South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,514, issued on April 22, was assigned to University of South Carolina (Columbia, S.C.).

"Mutual authentication techniques for drone delivery" was invented by Qiang Zeng (West Columbia, S.C.) and Lannan Luo (West Columbia, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are methods, techniques and systems for a user to conduct authentication via inertial measurement unit data collected by the user's smartphone and video data collected by a drone recording the user operations for mutual authentication, as well as to prevent attacks of the authentication data, wherein correlation can be easily extended to using other information, su...