US Patent Issued to Thinkspan on Oct. 14 for "User authentication in a recall-memory enhancing manner" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,696, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Thinkspan LLC (Highland Park, Ill.).

"User authentication in a recall-memory enhancing manner" was invented by Brian Samuel Taylor (Highland Park, Ill.), Matthew Maxwell Murphy (Chicago) and James Michael Faris (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "With a multitude of passwords in today's technologically enhanced world, where each password is a string of nonsensical alphanumeric characters, the user can easily forget a particular password. However, while users frequently forget a nonsensical password, users easily remember places, favorite songs, or other emotionally relevant items. The syste...