US Patent Issued to Yahoo Japan on June 17 for "Terminal device, authentication server, authentication method, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,253, issued on June 17, was assigned to Yahoo Japan Corp. (Tokyo).

"Terminal device, authentication server, authentication method, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium" was invented by Hidehito Gomi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal device according to the present application includes a sending unit that sends a challenge to an authenticator, a reception unit that receives the challenge with a signature and a public key from the authenticator, a verification unit that performs signature verification using the public key, and a providing unit that provides a verification result of the signature to an auth...