ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,958, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"System and method for providing data authentication for long range communications" was invented by Saurabh Arora (Gurugram, India), Sandeep Kumar Chauhan (Miyapur Hyderabad, India) and Jagadish Reddy (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various systems, methods, and computer program products for providing data authentication for long range communications. The method includes receiving one or more local data processing indicators from a computing device of a user. The one or more local data processing indicators is based on historical informa...