ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,929, issued on July 29, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).
"Geolocation authenticator" was invented by Edward Lee Traywick (Bellbrook, Ohio), Barry Walsh (Greystones, Ireland), Joshua Johnson (Denver, N.C.), Christopher Stephen Littrell (Dallas) and Christopher D. Nobile (Charlotte, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure are directed to a supporting authentication between a computing platform and a computer that has an attached geolocation dongle. The attached geolocation dongle provides location information to the computer that is indicative of a current location of the computer, where th...