US Patent Issued to Discover Financial Services on May 13 for "Computing systems and methods for protecting application programming interfaces with two-factor authentication" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,720, issued on May 13, was assigned to Discover Financial Services (Riverwoods, Ill.).

"Computing systems and methods for protecting application programming interfaces with two-factor authentication" was invented by Hao Chen (Palatine, Ill.) and George Mitry (Mundelein, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to extend an OAuth 2.0 framework in a way that an application programming interface (API) is to be protected with two-factor authentication, an API provider may be presented with a set of options for different types of second authentication factors that can be used to carry out the two-factor authentication for the API, and...