US Patent Issued to BlackBerry on June 3 for "Two-factor authentication for a shared device" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,425, issued on June 3, was assigned to BlackBerry Ltd. (Waterloo, Canada).

"Two-factor authentication for a shared device" was invented by Sean Michael Quinlan (Duvall, Wash.) and Mendel Elliot Spencer (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and software can be used to perform a two-factor authentication. In some aspects, a method includes: receiving, by an electronic device from a device authentication server, a two-factor authentication (2FA) token; transmitting, by the electronic device to an identity provider (IDP), an authentication request for a 2FA operation, wherein the authentication request comprises the 2FA...