US Patent Issued to Bank of America on Feb. 17 for "Infrared light-based authentication" (North Carolina, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,809, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Infrared light-based authentication" was invented by Jason Starin (Huntersville, N.C.) and Carrie Elaine Gates (Livermore, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Arrangements for authenticating users using infrared light are provided. A computing platform may detect an initiated video communication session between two or more computing devices. In response, a prompt to initiate authentication via an infrared authentication device may be transmitted to at least one computing device. The computing platform may receive, from the at least one computing devic...