ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,415, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to NCR Voyix Corp. (Atlanta).

"Non-repeatable challenge-response authentication" was invented by Yehoshua Zvi Licht (Alpharetta, Ga.) and Joseph Arnold White (Encinitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "User data is aggregated across a plurality of electronic communication channels and domains. An online system initially authenticates a user for access to the online system over a network. The online system provides a user identifier for the user to an authentication service. The authentication service generates a non-repeatable challenge from the aggregated user data for the user identifier a...