US Patent Issued to Traitware on March 17 for "Multi-factor authentication with increased security" (California, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,230, issued on March 17, was assigned to Traitware Inc. (Reno, Nev.).

"Multi-factor authentication with increased security" was invented by Christopher M. Canfield (Santa Clarita, Calif.), Herbert W. Spencer III (Grass Valley, Calif.), Andrew Heath Spencer (Truckee, Calif.) and Todd S. Hickerson (Colorado Springs, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-factor authentication method and system is provided such that a push notification during an authentication process is only received if a mobile device and user are authenticated prior to receiving the push notification. Either the mobile device itself or a second device sending ...