US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF JEDDAH on Aug. 19 for "Vibration aided picture-based authentication system and method" (Saudi Arabia, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,663, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF JEDDAH (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia).

"Vibration aided picture-based authentication system and method" was invented by Faisal Sultan Alsubaei (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia) and Abdullah Eid Abuhussein (St. Cloud, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by a server for authentication at a service provider includes generating a sequence X of secret locations SLn and deceiving locations DLk associated with an image, wherein the deceiving locations DLk are associated with a random array Vi of vibrations pattern, wherein i, n, and k are integers with k smaller than n, and granting acc...