ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,412, issued on April 29.
"Method and system for authentication and encryption" was invented by Danny Sebbane (Tel Aviv, Israel) and David Cohen (Givat Ada, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus and computer program product, the method comprising: an enrollment phase, comprising: retrieving information related to a trigger subject and generating a question a potential answer, wherein the trigger subject is concealed therein; generating and transmitting to the device a first token; generating a second token for encrypting data of the user or the device; and deleting the second token; and an account setting phase, com...