US Patent Issued on Aug. 4 for "Near field communication (NFC) based personhood authentication with a social network" (Utah Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,010, issued on Aug. 4.

"Near field communication (NFC) based personhood authentication with a social network" was invented by Paul D. Kappos (Bountiful, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and devices for close proximity personhood authentication. A method includes receiving a request to authenticate a social profile of a first person. The method includes receiving first location data from a sensor associated with the first person and second location data from a sensor associated with a second person. The method includes determining the first person is in close geographic proximity to the second person based on the f...