ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,794, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Omnissa LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Mobile device authentication" was invented by Daniel James Beveridge (Apollo Beach, Fla.), Blake Watts (St. George, Utah) and Jian Mu (BeiJing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A desktop is unlocked or locked using a mobile client device, such as a smart phone, tablet, smart watch, etc. The authentication mechanism of the mobile client device, such as fingerprint, facial recognition, voice recognition, username and password, is leveraged for faster, less-cumbersome user authentication on the desktop. In this vein, a client device is added to an authenticatio...