ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,662, issued on May 6, was assigned to ValiMail Inc. (Boulder, Colo.).

"Spatial broadcasting device authentication" was invented by Ashley Duane Wilson (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments relate to systems for generating identity records (e.g., authentication certificates) at a server for validating broadcast messages. The server may receive a request to generate an identity record, where the request may include a public key of a named entity device that is configured to broadcast messages. The server may generate the identity record using the private key of the server and transmit the generated certificate to a ...