ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,619, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Utilizing passive wearable devices to capture device interaction data for supplementary authentication" was invented by Tejinder Singh (Manotick, Canada), Navjot Kaur Khaira (Manotick, Canada), Kan Wang (Ottawa) and Ibrahim Abu Alhaol (Nepean, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology described herein is directed towards using a wearable passive metasurface (e.g., in the form of a ring) to reflect signals representative of user interaction with computer peripheral devices (e.g., a mouse and keyboard) coupled to a computing device. The reflected si...