US Patent Issued to Xerox on June 3 for "Multi-factor authentication via mixed reality" (New York, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,438, issued on June 3, was assigned to Xerox Corp. (Norwalk, Conn.).

"Multi-factor authentication via mixed reality" was invented by Fritz Francis Ebner (Pittsford, N.Y.), Matthew Leigh Puccini (Carlsbad, Calif.), Aaron Zachary Borden (Pittsford, N.Y.) and Matthew David Levesque (Henrietta, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to an authentication approach to grant access to a secure service on an electronic device. The authentication approach includes receiving, via an electronic device, a request to access the secure service. The authentication approach includes determining whether the electronic device is posi...