ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,302, issued on Oct. 14.

"Caller process verification for device-bound authenticators" was invented by Johannes Stockmann (Woodinville, Wash.) and Stephen Woodward Lind (El Cerrito, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for process verification are described. An authenticator application of a device may receive, from an authenticating application of the device, a first request to establish a network connection between the authenticator application and the authenticating application. The first request may identify a port associated with the network connection. The authenticator application may receive a se...