ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,448, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to PAYPAL INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Electronic identification and authentication system" was invented by Srivathsan Narasimhan (San Jose, Calif.), Eric Byungho Min (San Jose, Calif.), Michael Charles Todasco (Santa Clara, Calif.), Cheng Tian (San Jose, Calif.) and Satish Govindarajan (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a service provider device and a point of sale (POS) device. A session between a user device and the POS device is established. An authentication request associated with the user device is provided via a user interface of the POS device. Subsequent to ...