ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,367, issued on May 6.

"Systems and methods for facilitating biometric tokenless authentication for services" was invented by Kenneth A. Kopf (Greensboro, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for tokenless authorization are provided. Obtaining an electronic representation of an initial biometric sampling of a registrant. Applying the initial electronic representation to a template data construct producing a unique digital identifier (UDI). Obtaining account information constructs corresponding to an account by the registrant with a third party. Generating a unique secure identification number (SIN) using the UDI and...