US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on May 5 for "Linguistic proficiency based protocols" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,299, issued on May 5, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Linguistic proficiency based protocols" was invented by Uri Kartoun (Cambridge, Mass.), Sophie Batchelder (Cambridge, Mass.), Hamid Majdabadi (Ottawa) and Jeremy R. Fox (Georgetown, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for accessing a resource. A set of language affinities for multiple languages is identified in response to receiving a request from a client device for a user to access the resource. The user is authenticated using the set of language affinities for the multiple languages."

The patent was filed on Oct. 1, 2024, under Ap...