US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Feb. 17 for "Proximity based multifactor authentication using passive wearable metasurfaces" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,819, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Proximity based multifactor authentication using passive wearable metasurfaces" was invented by Tejinder Singh (Manotick, Canada) and Navjot Kaur Khaira (Manotick, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology described herein is directed towards automatically completing two-factor authentication for a user based on detection of a distinct metasurface of a wearable (or other) device associated with a user. The wearable device includes a passive metasurface that interacts with a transceiver coupled to a computing device, such as a personal computer o...