ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,916, issued on July 29, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).
"User authentication" was invented by Kanakrai Chauhan (Snoqualmie, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for user authentication are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving a request to access a streaming service on an electronic device. The actions further include, in response to receiving the request to access the streaming service on the electronic device, determining, by the computing device, that a subscriber device is in a vic...