US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Aug. 25 for "Transparent authentication using biometric factors" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,862, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Transparent authentication using biometric factors" was invented by Nagendra Kumar Nainar (Morrisville, N.C.), David John Zacks (Vancouver, Canada), Carlos M. Pignataro (Cary, N.C.) and Thomas Szigeti (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes techniques for authentication using wearable devices. An example method includes determining that a user is wearing a secondary device; determining that the secondary device has detected a signal output by a primary device; determining that the user has confirmed an authentication...