ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,201, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio).

"Haptic feedback-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 haptic signal-based method and system of performing an authentication of video of a person in order to authorize access to a secured resource. The system and method are configured to cause a remote computing device to generate a vibration wh...