ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,541, issued on July 29, was assigned to i Proov Ltd. (Great Britain).

"Device type verification via motion-based attestation of users screen touch" was invented by Panagiotis Papadopoulos (London), Bruno Voigt Hoos (London), Josselin Guillozet (Woodstock, Great Britain), Gemma Bird (London) and Andrew Newell (West Sussex, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of verifying a genuine presence and identity of a user of a mobile device include analyzing a stream of data from sensors of the mobile device over a period spanning a user press of a button displayed on a touch screen of the device. Results of the analysis are us...