ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,934, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Continual biometric authentication" was invented by Manu Kurian (Dallas), Ana Maxim (Arlington, Va.), Vinesh Patel (London) and Michael Young (Davidson, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus, methods and systems for continual biometric authentication of a user on a user device is provided. Methods may create, for the user, a biometric authentication reference model. Methods may store the biometric authentication reference model at a database associated with the user device. In response to an instantiation of a session by the user on the user dev...