US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 1 for "Continuous authentication in a security environment" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,865, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Continuous authentication in a security environment" was invented by Madhu Pavan Kothapally (Warangal, India), Narinder Kaur (Ludhiana, India), Namrata Kumari (Hyderabad, India), Ray Anderson (Decatur, Ga.) and Kartheek Baddukonda (West Godavari, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method for authentication using a stylus. The stylus generates a stylus token using a key stored in the stylus and a current timestamp, wherein the stylus token is valid for a selected period of time. The stylus transmits the stylus token ...