ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,918, issued on May 20, was assigned to VERITONE INC. (Irvine, Calif.).
"Cognitive multi-factor authentication" was invented by Chad Steelberg (Costa Mesa, Calif.) and Albert Brown (San Juan Capistrano, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "User authentication is an extremely important process in many applications and industries. Because of its importance, most security-sensitive user authentication processes employ an automatic multi-factor authentication process that involves confirming a SMS message, answering a security question, entering a PIN, etc. However, even these auto multi-factor authentication processes are vulnerable to ...