US Patent Issued to Bank of America on Dec. 23 for "Enhanced authentication leveraging graphical passwords and behavioral data" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,194, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Enhanced authentication leveraging graphical passwords and behavioral data" was invented by Stephen L. Yeager (Seattle) and Hitesh Shah (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, and systems for two-factor authentication leveraging graphical passwords and behavioral data are provided. Methods may include creating a two-factor authentication model for logging into a user account. The two-factor authentication model may include a first graphical password and first behavioral data corresponding to biometric characteristics of the creating ...