ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,401, issued on July 15, was assigned to GLORY LTD. (Hyogo, Japan).

"System and method for authenticating a user of a banking device" was invented by Douglas Wielard (Grandville, Mich.), Snehal Vashi (Atlanta), Rodney Smith (Marietta, Ga.), David Page (Alpharetta, Ga.), Lisa Marie Foley (Atlanta) and Russell Brackett (Powder Springs, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A banking device in accordance with the present disclosure includes processing circuitry that is configured to receive user authentication information from a mobile device of a user interacting with the mobile device. The user authentication information may include a tok...