ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,461, issued on May 20, was assigned to Kyndryl Inc. (New York).
"Augmented user authentication" was invented by Mauro Marzorati (Lutz, Fla.), Paul Llamas Virgen (Zapopan, Mexico), Priyansh Jaiswal (Boca Raton, Fla.) and Peeyush Jaiswal (Boca Raton, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method includes: setting up, by a computing device, an identification profile by capturing a first image using a camera of the computing device; requesting, by the computing device, an authentication action by an authentication device; comparing, by the computing device, recognized elements of the first image and a second image, th...