US Patent Issued to WALRUS SECURITY on May 6 for "Multifactor authentication of secure transmission of data" (New York, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,577, issued on May 6, was assigned to WALRUS SECURITY INC. (New York).

"Multifactor authentication of secure transmission of data" was invented by Max Ira Howald (New York), Michael Walfish (New York), Andrew Justin Blumberg (New York) and Benjamin Braun (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Multifactor authentication of secure transmission of data, including, receiving, from a first computing device associated with a first user, identifying information associated with a second user; transmitting, based on the identifying information, a request for data; receiving the data from a second computing device associated with t...