US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on June 3 for "Using a user location as an additional security factor for online services" (British, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,416, issued on June 3, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Using a user location as an additional security factor for online services" was invented by Kaweepoj Phacharintanakul (Warwick, Great Britain), Wolfgang von Drews (Crailsheim, Germany) and Gwilym Benjamin Lee Newton (Winchester, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, a computer program product, and a computer system for using a user location as a security factor for online services. Upon receiving from a computing device of a user a request for a digital service allowed in a geofence, a first computer host...