US Patent Issued to Orange on Oct. 21 for "Identity and location certification by multifactor verification based on a closed loop of exchanges" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,678, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Orange (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France).

"Identity and location certification by multifactor verification based on a closed loop of exchanges" was invented by Sylvain Leroux (Chatillon, France) and Thierry Gaillet (Chatillon, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and devices for certifying identity and location and a method and devices for managing access requests. A first verification relating to a location of a requester is carried out by a terminal upon reception of a code received by the terminal via at least one short-range telecommunication channel. A second verification relating to...