ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,681, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Non-contact authentication for key recovery and platform security provisioning" was invented by Charbel Khawand (Sammamish, Wash.) and Andrew James Hillenius (Woodinville, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Secure AI authentication is implemented for selectable environments with a selectable combination of ML models processing selectable input credentials, e.g., biometric and/or non-biometric credentials, such as a key associated with a secure model, user location information, a user gesture credential, and/or a user movement pattern crede...