ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,884, issued on April 14, was assigned to WhatsApp LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).
"Accessing an encrypted platform" was invented by Attaullah Baig (Leander, Texas) and Archis Apte (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and storage media for authenticating access to a messaging platform are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: determine an existence of a user device associated with a network; receive the IP address associated with the user device; compare the IP address associated with the user device with historical metadata associated with the user device; permit access to the messaging platform; and ini...