US Patent Issued to Bank of America on Oct. 14 for "Two-factor authentication integrating dynamic QR codes" (North Carolina, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,689, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Two-factor authentication integrating dynamic QR codes" was invented by Jennifer Sanctis (Charlotte, N.C.), Taylor Farris (Hoboken, N.J.) and Vishwas Korde (Matthews, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for pre-authenticating a user into a secure session on an entity application running on a second computing device leveraging a first computing device of the user as an authenticator may be provided. The method may include generating at the first computing device a dynamic QR code in response to receipt of a request to generate the dynamic QR cod...