ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,743, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to University of South Florida (Tampa, Fla.).

"System of and method for visual brain based authentication" was invented by Tyree L. Lewis (Tampa, Fla.) and Marvin Andujar (Tampa, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein relates to a system of and method for automatically authenticating an identity of a user, via a brain-computer interface, to allow the user access to at least one application of a computing device. The authentication optimization system may be configured to allow at least one user to register and/or login to an application, a computing device, and/or a program. Addition...