ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,779, issued on April 7, was assigned to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio).
"Environment based authentication" was invented by Emily Kathleen Krebs (San Antonio), Jose L. Romero Jr. (San Antonio), Reynaldo Medina III (San Antonio), Andre Rene Buentello (San Antonio), Noe Alberto Martinez (San Antonio), Cayley Danielle Collum (San Antonio) and Christopher Russell (San Antonio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Authentication techniques are described to allow a person to be authenticated to interact with an organization, where a type of authentication can be determined based on an environment in which the person is...