ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,679, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Telefonica Innovacion Digital, S.L.U. (Madrid).

"Secure authorization method and system" was invented by Xiaoyuan Yang (Madrid).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A secure authorization method and system. The method includes providing, an XFA authorization backend having registered therein a user that wants to protect access or protect the performance of an operation on an Internet-connected asset having a service backend computer where the asset is assigned to the user through an identifying element; receiving, by the XFA backend, one or more user-configurable security factors that are linked to a ...