US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on March 24 for "Device and role based user authentication" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,818, issued on March 24, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Device and role based user authentication" was invented by Thomas Jefferson Sandridge (Tampa, Fla.), Michael Boone (Lutz, Fla.), Tushar Agrawal (West Fargo, N.D.), Jeremy R. Fox (Georgetown, Texas) and Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for device and role-based authentication includes generating a near-body electrical-field via a communication transmitter associated with a user, where a plurality of IoT devices is further associated with the user attempting authentication for access to a location....