ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,926, issued on June 10, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Dynamic handwriting authentication" was invented by Su Liu (Austin, Texas), Barton Wayne Emanuel (Manassas, Va.), Hamid Majdabadi (Ottawa) and Yang Liang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are techniques for handwriting authentication. The techniques include defining handwriting characteristics for a user based on a set of handwriting authentication criteria. The techniques further include receiving, from a graphical user interface (GUI) of a user device associated with the user, a handwritten phrase. The techniques further i...