ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,975, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Avast Software s.r.o. (Prague).
"Synthetic biometrics for user privacy" was invented by Martin Mesrsmid (Prague) and Armin Wasicek (Moraga, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A synthetic biometric signature is generated for a user for each of a plurality of third parties, and the synthetic biometric signatures are used to interact with the respective third parties such that each of the third parties sees a different synthetic biometric signature for the user. The synthetic biometric signatures comprise a user's actual biometric data altered by a change vector, an artificial biometric signatu...