US Patent Issued to IDMELON TECHNOLOGIES on June 24 for "System and method for forwarding authentication requests to a nearby authenticator" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,161, issued on June 24, was assigned to IDMELON TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Vancouver, Canada).

"System and method for forwarding authentication requests to a nearby authenticator" was invented by Bahram Piri (Vancouver, Canada) and Hassan Seifi (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods that involve receiving an authentication request initiated by a relying party application on a computing device via Web Authentication (WebAuthn) interface; connecting to a nearby companion device; forwarding the authentication request to the authenticator on the companion device; receiving a response to that authentication request ...