ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,560, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Multifactor authentication based on user experiences" was invented by Prem Pradeep Motgi (Austin, Texas), Dharmesh M. Patel (Round Rock, Texas) and Manpreet Singh Sokhi (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for managing requests for functionalities of a data repository are disclosed. The data repository may store sensitive data (e.g., personal data), and may offer functionality (e.g., data access) in order to facilitate computer-implemented services. To prevent unauthorized access to and/or use of the sensitive data, an ac...