US Patent Issued to CHARLES SCHWAB & Co. on Sept. 9 for "System and method for authenticating a user to provide a web service" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,574, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to CHARLES SCHWAB & Co. INC. (San Francisco).

"System and method for authenticating a user to provide a web service" was invented by Valery Zubovsky (San Francisco), Charles E. Gotlieb (San Francisco), Suwat Phruksawan (Pleasant Hill, Calif.), Toby R. Kendall (San Francisco), Patrick C. McGraw (Round Rock, Texas) and Dominic E. Caudell (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for authenticating a user for a web service includes receiving, at a first device, a request from a second device to authenticate the user for the web service and in response to the request, returning a code fr...