US Patent Issued to Aetna on July 22 for "Systems and methods for generating and using biometric secret keys" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,582, issued on July 22, was assigned to Aetna Inc. (Hartford, Conn.).

"Systems and methods for generating and using biometric secret keys" was invented by Salil Jain (Hartford, Conn.) and Andrew L. Hinton (Hartford, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system comprising a first user device is provided. The first user device is configured to: obtain biometric registration data associated with a user; generate a secret key for the biometric registration data, wherein the secret key indicates an index translate point array; determine enrollment data for the user based on an index translate function, the biometric registration data, an...