US Patent Issued to Genesee Valley Innovations on May 12 for "Authentication using a conversational user interface" (California, District Of Columbia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,706, issued on May 12, was assigned to Genesee Valley Innovations LLC (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Authentication using a conversational user interface" was invented by Eric Saund (Washington), Kyle Dent (San Carlos, Calif.), John T. Maxwell III (Santa Clara, Calif.), Jesse Vig (Los Altos, Calif.) and Daniel G. Bobrow (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A one-time passphrase is transmitted from an authentication system to a personal communication device of a user. The one-time passphrase includes common but incongruous words. The user is prompted to verbalize the one-time passphrase to a processor-implemented, conversational ...