US Patent Issued to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) on Sept. 30 for "Authentication for application downloads" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,202, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio).

"Authentication for application downloads" was invented by Patrick Adam (Helotes, Texas) and Gabriel Carlos Fernandez (San Antonio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein disclose technology for verifying authorization of an application download. The system can receive from a device associated with a user, a request to download an application. In response to a first instance of the application being downloaded on the device, the system can assign a unique identifier to the first instance of the application. After...