US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on July 21 for "App profile verification across computing devices using transaction context" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,506, issued on July 21, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"App profile verification across computing devices using transaction context" was invented by Amer Aref Hassan (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and machine-readable mediums that enhance transaction authentication of a transaction of a first application by checking that a state of one or more other applications matches prespecified states or that one or more of those applications transition states within a prespecified period of time. For example, the prespecified states may correspond to the application being ...