ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,515, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).
"Authenticating a user" was invented by Tommy Arngren (Sodra Sunderbyn, Sweden), Peter Okvist (Lulea, Sweden) and Andreas Kristensson (Sodra Sandby, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is provided a method for authenticating a user. The method comprises the steps of: detecting a user input of a passcode element to a user input device; determining a virtual-surface component of the passcode element, the virtual-surface component being one of a finite set of possible virtual-surface components; determining a depth component of the passcode ...