ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,080, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Unify Patente GmbH & Co. KG (Munich).

"Method and system for user authentication" was invented by Thomas Lederer (Herrsching, Germany) and Christina Papadimitriou (Nea Ionia, Greece).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for user authentication during a connection between a first user and a second user can include receiving an authentication request from the first user for authenticating the second user, executing an authentication process of the first user, receiving contact data of the second user from the first user, sending a Token to the second user wherein the Token is based on and/or addr...