ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,443, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus with selective combined authentication" was invented by Jihye Kim (Anyang-si, South Korea), Seungju Han (Seoul, South Korea), Jaejoon Han (Seoul, South Korea), Minsu Ko (Suwon-si, South Korea), SungUn Park (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Chang Kyu Choi (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus with selective combined authentication performs a single authentication based on a first modality among plural modalities, and in response to the single authentication having failed, determines wh...