ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,384, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Truist Bank (Charlotte, N.C.).
"Location-based mobile device authentication" was invented by Reinaldo Gamaliel Rivera Colon (Raleigh, N.C.), Everardo Calamaco Jr. (Louisburg, N.C.) and Michaela Rose Cestari (Cary, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer server may receive location data from a mobile client device and may compare the location data to predefined secure location definitions, which may be trusted or private locations. The computer server may receive a request from the mobile client device to access network resources or services, and the computer server may determine, using...