US Patent Issued to Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A. on Sept. 8 for "Method and system for authentication" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,867, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A. Inc. (Ramsey, N.J.).

"Method and system for authentication" 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 authentication of users for access to web applications. The method includes receiving, by a processor, a user identifier and a biometric identifier for a user with a request to access one or more relying party applications; validating, by the processor, the user identifier and the...