US Patent Issued to Motorola Mobility on Oct. 6 for "Location based transaction authentication" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,285, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Motorola Mobility LLC (Chicago).

"Location based transaction authentication" was invented by Amit Kumar Agrawal (Bangalore, India), Vijayprakash Idlur (Bangalore, India) and Panduranga Reddy Pailla (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In aspects of location based transaction authentication, a mobile device includes a location service to determine a device location of the mobile device. The mobile device also implements a transaction authentication manager that can receive a transaction location of a transaction associated with an account of a user of the mobile device, and compare the...