US Patent Issued to WOVEN BY TOYOTA on May 20 for "Authentication method, authentication system, and authentication server" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,147, issued on May 20, was assigned to WOVEN BY TOYOTA INC. (Tokyo).

"Authentication method, authentication system, and authentication server" was invented by Masaaki Yamaoka (Tokyo-to, Japan), Yasutomo Masuda (Tokyo-to, Japan), Hiroko Okuyama (Tokyo-to, Japan), Takahiro Suzuki (Tokyo-to, Japan) and Hideo Hasegawa (Tokyo-to, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a technique that enables a customer who intend to receive a service and an attendant in charge of the customer to verify each other's authenticity. An authentication method of the present disclosure comprises transmitting a trigger signal from t...