ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,919, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to NEUSTAR INC. (Reston, Va.).
"Methods and systems for device authentication" was invented by Steven Todd Kirsch (Los Altos Hills, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for disabling a device associated with a virtual identity may include receiving, from the device, a request to use the virtual identity, where the request that may include a passcode guess and a device identifier. The method may also include determining that the passcode guess does not authorize use of the virtual identity and incrementing a number of incorrect passcode guesses received within a time interval. The method ...