US Patent Issued to Kyndryl on Dec. 30 for "User-friendly and self-managed challenge-response authentication" (American, Costa Rican Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,368, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Kyndryl Inc. (New York).

"User-friendly and self-managed challenge-response authentication" was invented by Cesar Augusto Rodriguez Bravo (Alajuela, Costa Rica), John Richard Feezell (Pikeville, Tenn.), Kim A. Eckert (Austin, Texas) and David Alonso Campos Batista (Aurora, Costa Rica).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer-implemented methods for a user-friendly and self-managed CAPTCHA system. Aspects include storing a copy of an image selected from a set of images as a source image. Aspects further include generating a reference image by applying an image obfuscation technique to the image an...