ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,719, issued on March 4, was assigned to BanQu Inc. (Minnetonka, Minn.).

"Computer-implemented authentication platform" was invented by Ashish Gadnis (Austin, Texas), Jeffrey A. Keiser (Minnetonka, Minn.), Michael Linton (St. Paul, Minn.) and Stanislav S. Natalenko (Kharkov, Ukraine).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for computer-implemented authentication platforms are described herein. In an example approach, a user is enrolled in a computer-implemented authentication platform. The enrollment process includes digitally encrypting an image of a user, storing the digitally encrypted image of t...