ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,105, issued on July 15, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo) and Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. (Culver City, Calif.).
"Code-based two factor authentication" was invented by Eric Diehl (Culver City, Calif.) and Chaitanya Krishna Rudrabhatla (Torrance, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Authenticating a user account to access a remote service from a user device includes: capturing a machine-readable image code displayed on the user device using a mobile device, wherein the image code is provided by the remote service; extracting and calling a corresponding session code embedded in the image code; determining whether a phone t...