US Patent Issued to TELEFONICA INNOVATION DIGITAL, S.L.U. on March 3 for "Multi-factor authentication method and system for virtual reality" (Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,077, issued on March 3, was assigned to TELEFONICA INNOVATION DIGITAL, S.L.U. (Madrid).

"Multi-factor authentication method and system for virtual reality" was invented by Lars Stalling (Madrid) and Xiaoyuan Yang (Madrid).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for multi-factor authenticating a user wearing a VR headset (120) comprising a multi-factor authentication application programming interface to interact with a multi-factor authentication provider server (110) and enable the user to create an account in the provider server (110) associated with a secondary device (130). Each one-time code generated by the provider se...