Brief Patent Summaries

Covering Both Issued and Pending Patents

Patent Issued 08/30/16 (9,430,626) User Authentication Via Known Text Input Cadence. It covers the statistical engines we invented, and is a broad, foundational patent with claims that cover the measurements and complex mathematics required to compare effort. This allows our products to detect if someone different is entering a password.

Patent Issued 03/12/19 (10,229,255) User Authentication. This patent contains claims that extend the techniques described in the first patent to include any data gathered from touchscreens and other sensors, including three-dimensional sensors that are part of a wearable device.

Patent Issued 03/19/19 (10,235,507) Authentication Via Typing Cadence, Gestures, and QR Codes. This covers the algorithms and techniques supporting both existing products and to-be-released products relating to wearables and gestures. Among other applications, this allows for a method to construct a one-time, “challenge” phrase the user must enter to confirm that the right person is in front of the computer.

Patent Issued 12/22/20 (10,872,336) System and Method for Independent User Effort-Based Validation. This allows for a provider to issue a physical or electronic credential that connects effort to other components, and can be used to validate identity on disconnected systems. With this portability, GDPR Article 20 requirements are met, and healthcare insurance fraud can be easily addressed, as well as anonymous authentication requirements, such as medical trials.

Patent Issued 01/12/21 (10,891,616) System and Method for Effort-Based User Authentication. Authentication with an application token. This allows for a trusted provider (SaaS, etc.) to offer third-party validation of identity without disclosing any personal information, and maintains privacy to comply with GDPR and other regulations. Your bank, your email, and your merchant can all check against the same provider.

Patent Issued 03/30/21 (10,963,545) Authentication Via Typing Cadence, Gestures, and QR Codes. This expands on the previous patent (10,235,507), with additional techniques described for gesture, mobile, and wearable device sensor analysis, and the application QR standards that offer portability of sensitive information for authentication.

Patent Issued 11/16/21 (11,176,553) Method and System Providing Peer Effort-Based Validation. This allows for a trusted provider (SaaS, etc.) to offer validation between two parties without exchanging personal information. With more anonymous, freelance transactions in the “1099 economy”, this provides both assurance and privacy.

Patent Issued 02/14/2023 (11,580,002) User Effort Detection. This describes a unique process to understand the difference between outlier (bad) and anomalous (good, but off) information within a set of data. While primarily applied to security applications to reduce noise, it also has broad application for general data cleansing requirements. We expect additional patents may be issued from other claims in the original application at a later date, as well.

Patent Issued 08/13/2024 (12,061,959) User Effort Detection. The second patent that has been allowed from an application filed in 2018. This includes the methods used to examine a set of AI training data to determine which parts belong, based on the data itself. This can be used both to improve an AI model, as well as to build sub-models from a data collection that may represent one or more groups of useful data.

Patent Allowed (10/3/2025) User Effort Detection. This covers a process to distinguish between a group of behaviors which belong together, versus groups of anomalies and outliers, and/or groups of behaviors that have changed. One of the applications for this can be detecting password attempts made by imposters, “friends,” restricted kids or AI-driven bots — but it extends beyond those benefits to the analysis of other activity clusters to determine how to correctly filter irrelevant data and then drill down into what "important," unauthorized changes or new entries have occurred.