ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,456, issued on April 8, was assigned to AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Seattle).

"System to manage biometric data" was invented by Manoj Aggarwal (Seattle), Gerard Guy Medioni (Los Angeles), Chad Desjardins (Seattle) and Dilip Kumar (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Maintaining the security of biometric data is an utmost priority. Biometric data is secured using one or more techniques. With one technique, biometric input such as images of a user's palm is used to generate first primary data (PD). The original biometric input is deleted from temporary secure storage while the first PD is securely stored. The first PD may then be proc...