US Patent Issued to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) on Aug. 4 for "Emergency device access for companions" (Texas, North Carolina, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,754, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio).

"Emergency device access for companions" was invented by Paul Joseph Astwood (San Antonio), Steven Michael Bernstein (San Antonio), Janell Guzman (Boerne, Texas), Gregory David Hansen (Fuquay Varina, N.C.), Nina Schuessler (San Antonio), Kristina Suniga Cabrera (San Antonio) and Mounica Urity (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for managing and enabling emergency access to critical data. The embodiments provide a system that authenticates companions of a owner of a computing device following a secur...