US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 16 for "Location coordinate-based user authentication with device loss security tolerance" (New York, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,529, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Location coordinate-based user authentication with device loss security tolerance" was invented by Krishnan Sugavanam (Mahopac, N.Y.), Aris Gkoulalas-Divanis (Waltham, Mass.), Sophie Batchelder (Cambridge, Mass.) and Uri Kartoun (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a method, computer system, and computer program product for user authentication. The embodiment may include receiving, at an authentication server, respective multiple location coordinates from first and second registered devices. Storin...