ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,782, issued on July 14, was assigned to Kyndryl Inc. (New York).

"Mutual multi-factor authentication technology" was invented by Seng Chai Gan (Ashburn, Va.), Shikhar Kwatra (San Jose, Calif.), Nadiya Kochura (Bolton, Mass.) and Mauro Marzorati (Lutz, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer software that stores information relating to a planned in-person meeting between a first user and a second user. The information includes a meeting time, a meeting location, and, for each of the first user and the second user: (i) a communications identifier associated with a device of the respective user, and (ii) a token identified by the r...