US Patent Issued to Bank of America on Aug. 5 for "Fingerprint authentication-related indicators for controlling device access and/or functionality" (North Carolina, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,189, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Fingerprint authentication-related indicators for controlling device access and/or functionality" was invented by George Anthony Albero (Charlotte, N.C.), Dustin Paul Stocks (Stallings, N.C.), Edward Lee Traywick (Bellbrook, Ohio) and Jake Michael Yara (Mint Hill, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A security feature within an apparatus that includes a fingerprint scanner used for purposes of authentication. Specifically, a first indicator is detected that is a user input to a fingerprint scanner and indicates the occurrence of a duress-inducing event. I...