US Patent Issued to QOMPLX on Feb. 4 for "Contextual and risk-based multi-factor authentication" (Virginia, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,218,934, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to QOMPLX LLC (Reston, Va.).

"Contextual and risk-based multi-factor authentication" was invented by Jason Crabtree (Vienna, Va.), Andrew Sellers (Monument, Colo.) and Ian MacLeod (Arlington, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for contextual and risk-based multi-factor authentication having a multi-dimensional time series data server configured to monitor and record a network's traffic data and to serve the traffic data to other modules and a directed computation graph module configured to receive network traffic data from the multi-dimensional time series data server, determine a network t...