US Patent Issued to Digital First Holdings on Aug. 11 for "Cross-channel authentication" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,900, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Digital First Holdings LLC (Atlanta).

"Cross-channel authentication" was invented by Timofei Gapakov (Kitchener, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a communication network are disclosed. A first computing device of a trusted computing system transmits an authentication request, for authenticating, in the trusted computing system, an identity of an individual, to a server of the trusted computing system. An authentication provider module, pre-registered with the trusted computing system and that is executing on a second computing device external to the trusted computing system de...