ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,177, issued on Nov. 3.

"Method and a computer program product for performing a remote online authentication process" was invented by Boris Petrov Dokov Goranov (Rotterdam, Netherlands) and Erwin Haasnoot (Rotterdam, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for performing a remote online authentication process. The method includes providing an authentication device communicately connected to an interrogating entity, and sending, by the interrogating entity, an I/O request to the authentication device. The method also includes outputting the I/O request on the authentication device, via an I/O interface of the authentication ...