ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,972, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to JPMORGAN CHASE BANK N.A. (New York).
"Image-based login and authentication" was invented by Alexander Buts (Jersey City, N.J.), Ta-Wei Chen (Princeton Junction, N.Y.), Robert S Newnam (Wilmington, Del.) and Benjamin H Sansom (Little Elm, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations generally relate to an image-based login and authentication system. In some implementations, a method includes displaying a plurality of random images to a user and receiving from the user a selection of at least one target image from the plurality of random images. The method further includes generating a ha...