US Patent Issued on July 29 for "Systems and methods for trustworthy electronic authentication using a computing device" (Virginia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,269, issued on July 29.

"Systems and methods for trustworthy electronic authentication using a computing device" was invented by James E. Bennison (Oakton, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, system, and digital recording medium provides for convenient and trustworthy user authentication with a computing device combining four authentication factors through use of a remote authentication system (RAS). An identity token (Device-ID) cryptographically bound to the user's computing device is generated as a first authentication factor. A password known only to the user is a second factor. Cryptographic signatures generated from th...