ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,675, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to AXS Group LLC (Los Angeles).

"Systems and methods for encrypted multifactor authentication using imaging devices and image enhancement" was invented by Michael J. Rojas (North Canton, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An authentication code may be encrypted in optical indica. Optionally, AES, RSA, DES, and/or a hashing function may be utilized to encrypt the authentication code. An image of the authentication code may be captured from a device having a display using a digital camera. The image may be in a compressed format and transmitted over a network to an image analysis system. The image an...