US Patent Issued to Nametag on Sept. 22 for "Systems and methods for attested location-based authentication" (Michigan, Nebraska Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,677, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Nametag Inc. (Seattle).

"Systems and methods for attested location-based authentication" was invented by Ross Kinder (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Ben Fenwick (Papillion, Neb.) and Andrew Catellier (Denver, Neb.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for authenticating a user include an application executing on a device which receives, from an authentication server associated with the application, a request to authenticate a user. The application can obtain user authentication information from the user. Responsive to a signal transmitted to a native operating system service on the device, t...