US Patent Issued to Winkk on Dec. 16 for "Authentication and personal data sharing for partner services using out-of-band optical mark recognition" (Russian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,201, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Winkk Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Authentication and personal data sharing for partner services using out-of-band optical mark recognition" was invented by Renata Budko (Los Altos, Calif.), Dmitry Feld (Santa Clara, Calif.), Konstantin Kalinin (Rostov-on-Don, Russia) and Mikhail Petrushan (Rostov-on-Don, Russia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods and apparatuses for creating a verified mutually authenticated transaction between a service provider and an on-line identity for a physical client person. A dynamic optical mark may be displayed on a device screen where the physical c...