ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,759, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to ORANGE (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France).

"Authentication method using altered data and corresponding electronic device, computer program product and medium" was invented by Cedric Floury (Chatillon, France) and Mickael Le Trocquer (Chatillon, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method including: providing, on an output user interface of an electronic device, data including an audio sequence and/or an image, the provided data including a first and a second datum, the provided first datum being obtained by altering a third datum associated with a user account, the provided second datum being an un...