ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,368, issued on May 27, was assigned to Xerox Corp. (Norwalk, Conn.).

"Entity-specific user authentication in shared office document processing device" was invented by Emily K. Anzalone (Rochester, N.Y.), James P. Gorski (Penfield, N.Y.) and Donald L. Wegeng (Fairport, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An app is supplied to user devices. The app provides shared device cards to digital wallets of the user devices. The shared device cards supply entity-specific authentication configuration settings to a shared document processing device. The shared document processing device receives user credentials and uses the entity-specific authe...