ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,376, issued on March 3, was assigned to Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A. Inc. (Ramsey, N.J.).

"Method and system for authenticating users" was invented by Randy Cruz Soriano (San Leandro, Calif.) and Subramanyam Badri (Livermore, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, a system, and a non-transitory computer readable program code are disclosed for authenticating users. The method includes registering, on a processing device, one or more users in an authentication system, each of the one or more users having at least one corresponding client device; receiving, on the processing device, location data from the at least o...