ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,879, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to IRONVEST INC. (New York).

"User authentication and transaction verification via a shared video stream" was invented by Avi Turgeman (New York), Kfir Yeshayahu (Tzur Yigal, Israel) and Erez Zohar (Hoboken, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user interacts with a remote server via an end-user device, and enters transaction data. A user-facing camera of the end-user device captures a live video feed of the interacting user; which is displayed in real time on the screen of the end-user device while the user is filling-out fields and entering transaction data. The concurrent, real-time, video-feed ...