US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Feb. 10 for "Visible light communication (VLC) based multi-factor authentication (MFA) mechanism for edge devices" (American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,542, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Visible light communication (VLC) based multi-factor authentication (MFA) mechanism for edge devices" was invented by Shree Rathinasamy (Georgetown, Texas) and Maxim Balin (Gan-Yavne, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example method includes accessing, at a user device, a One Time Password (OTP) that includes randomly generated content that is used during a Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) process between the user device and an edge device. At the user device, the randomly generated content of the OTP is mapped onto light that is generated by a bu...