ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,425, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to NCR Voyix Corp. (Atlanta).
"Multi-factor secure operation authentication" was invented by Matthew Robert Burris (Lawrenceville, Ga.) and Jodessiah Sumpter (Alpharetta, Ga.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user makes a request from a requesting device for access to a secure operation associated with a network-based service. A first biometric authentication is processed for the request and at least one second scope-based authentication is processed for the request based on an analysis of a physical environment for the requesting device. A determination is made based on at least the first biometri...