US Patent Issued to Truist Bank on July 15 for "Network device proximity-based authentication" (North Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,085, issued on July 15, was assigned to Truist Bank (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Network device proximity-based authentication" was invented by Jeffrey Jason Griffin (Garner, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless system can be used to authenticate a user device via proximity information of wireless network devices. The system can include the user device, the wireless network devices, and a server. At least some of the wireless network devices can be wirelessly connected to the user device and at least some other wireless network devices can be wirelessly unconnected to the user device. The server can use proximity information about t...