US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 23 for "Authenticator push notification check in offline mode" (Indian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,403, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Authenticator push notification check in offline mode" was invented by Vignesh Manivannan (Vellore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique for multi-factor authenticating a user on a first device, the user having an associated second device configured with an authenticator application, and wherein the authenticator application is offline. In this scenario, and responsive to receipt of a request to access a protected resource, a push notification is sent to the authenticator. While the push notification remains pending, a deliver...