ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,239, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Assignment of authentication types using graphical icons" was invented by Steven James Ball (Redmond, Wash.) and Michael Vincent Mclaughlin (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to examples, an apparatus may include a processor and a memory on which is stored machine-readable instructions that when executed by the processor, may cause the processor to cause a graphical user interface to be displayed, the graphical user interface including graphical icons of a plurality of authentication types available for assignment to users and...