US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on July 29 for "Using multi-factor and/or inherence-based authentication to selectively enable performance of an operation prior to or during release of code" (Washington, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,289, issued on July 29, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Using multi-factor and/or inherence-based authentication to selectively enable performance of an operation prior to or during release of code" was invented by Karen Lowe Dahmen (Sammamish, Wash.), Eugene Wilson Hodges IV (Holly Springs, N.C.), John Michael Walton (Woodinville, Wash.), Kadri Tahsildoost (Bellevue, Wash.) and Filip Sebesta (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described herein that are capable of using multi-factor and/or inherence-based authentication to selectively enable performance of an operation prior to...