US Patent Issued to Ping Identity International on Feb. 10 for "Peer recovery procedures for access recovery and access control" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,531, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Ping Identity International Inc. (Denver).

"Peer recovery procedures for access recovery and access control" was invented by Marcin Zimny (Nottingham, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology disclosed teaches systems, methods, and media for enabling a user to recover from a loss of one or more authentication factors that are required in order to access a service. A pre-registered helper user is able to participate in the authentication journey on behalf of the user and provide an identity validation of the user in order to successfully authenticate the user in order for an a...