US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 16 for "User authentication based on periodic sampling of location coordinates" (New York, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,543, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"User authentication based on periodic sampling of location coordinates" 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, from a first device, multiple location coordinates of the first device. The embodiment may include storing, on a second device, a...