US Patent Issued to BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS on Sept. 2 for "Secure authentication token" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,040, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS PLC (London).

"Secure authentication token" was invented by Jonathan Roscoe (London), Max Smith-Creasey (London) and Tiago Martins Andrade (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer system and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are provided for validating a secure authentication token for accessing an application. The method captures a user gesture provided by a user as an authentication token and analyzes the gesture to evaluate a measure of complexity of the gesture. Responsive to a determination that the measure of complexity does not me...