US Patent Issued to Bank of America on March 17 for "Mobile device dual authentication" (North Carolina, Illinois, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,294, issued on March 17, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Mobile device dual authentication" was invented by Taylor Farris (Hoboken, N.J.), Jennifer Sanctis (Charlotte, N.C.), Jesse James Godley (Charlotte, N.C.) and Trish Gillis (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods for dual authentication through a mobile device are provided. The apparatus and methods may include a device with two or more authentication sensors and a dual-authentication engine. When a request to authenticate a user is received, the user may use two or more of the authentication sensors within a short pre-determined ...