US Patent Issued to Micro Focus on May 12 for "Dynamic biometric combination authentication" (Idaho, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,655, issued on May 12, was assigned to Micro Focus LLC (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Dynamic biometric combination authentication" was invented by Douglas Max Grover (Rigby, Idaho) and Michael F. Angelo (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A request to authenticate a user is received. A random authentication pattern is generated. For example, the random authentication pattern may be for the user to provide a series of biometric scans and/or gesture scans. Instructions for the random authentication pattern are sent to a communication device (e.g., to a smartphone or smartwatch). A generated authentication pattern is received from the comm...