ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,953, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea).

"Cloud server for authentication user and operating method thereof" was invented by Sungyoon Song (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Hyungseok Shim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To authenticate account information received from an electronic device, a cloud server receives the account information to be authenticated and a request for the authentication from the electronic device; obtains authentication information for user authentication from user data corresponding to the account information; obtains correct answer data an...