US Patent Issued to Bank of America on Jan. 13 for "System and method for multifactor authentication for access to a resource based on co-connected device presence" (North Carolina, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,315, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"System and method for multifactor authentication for access to a resource based on co-connected device presence" was invented by Justin duPont (Huntersville, N.C.) and William Anderson Hodges (Mechanicsville, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for multifactor authentication system that determines co-connected device presence for added security. The system utilizes a device fingerprint for each device. The device fingerprint may contain a library of interconnected devices, as well as am...