US Patent Issued to PROVE IDENTITY on Aug. 18 for "Identifying and authenticating users based on passive factors determined from sensor data" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,210, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to PROVE IDENTITY INC. (New York).

"Identifying and authenticating users based on passive factors determined from sensor data" was invented by John Whaley (Fremont, Calif.) and Kurt W. Somerville (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed embodiments relate to a system that authenticates and/or identifies a user of an electronic device based on passive factors, which do not require conscious user actions. During operation of the system, in response to detecting a trigger event, the system collects sensor data from one or more sensors in the electronic device. Next, the system ex...