ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,342, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Badge Inc. (Lewes, Del.).

"Privacy-preserving biometric authentication using asymmetrically loaded servers" was invented by Charles H. Herder III (Newark, Calif.), Tina P. Srivastava (Newark, Calif.) and Young Hyun Kwon (Newark, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for using biometric data to authenticate a subject as an individual whose biometric data has been previously obtained. In this embodiment, the method utilizes a series of computer processes with asymmetrically loaded servers that are configured with one-time values for use in multi-party computing to perform the authenticat...