ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,462, issued on April 8, was assigned to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio).

"Secondary device remote signaling-based video authentication method and system" was invented by Ruthie D. Lyle (Durham, N.C.), Snehal Desai (Richardson, Texas), David Joaquin Harris (San Antonio), Eric David Schroeder (San Antonio) and Jeffrey David Calusinski (San Antonio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A remote signal-based method and system of performing an authentication of images of a person in order to permit access to a secured resource. The system and method are configured to cause a visual and/or haptic pattern response to oc...