US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on June 16 for "Location based attestation" (American, Canadian, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,918, issued on June 16, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Location based attestation" was invented by Grant Douglas Miller (Arvada, Colo.), Christopher J. Giblin (Zurich), Nader M. Nassar (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.) and Bryan Jon Kyle (Victoria, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method for managing access requests based on user device location includes receiving a user initiated access request from a first device of the user, receiving location data of the first device, requesting attestation of a registered device of the user from a trusted geocoded device, receiving an at...