ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,437, issued on June 3, was assigned to Ping Identity Corp. (Denver).
"Method and apparatus for secure authentication based on proximity" was invented by Avish Jacob Weiner (Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel), Ran Ne'man (Ramat Gan, Israel), Segev Sherry (Yavne, Israel), Yuri Glick (Petah Tikva, Israel), Guy Solomon (Rosh A'ayin, Israel) and Joseph Yuval Walters (Harish, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, a set of dynamic proximity attribute (DPA) Risk Signals (RS) indicating whether a user is within a predetermined proximity of a registered user mobile device (RUMD) and a registered user device (RUD) is received from the RUM...