US Patent Issued to BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS on May 27 for "User authentication based on behavioral biometrics" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,362, issued on May 27, was assigned to BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS PLC (London).

"User authentication based on behavioral biometrics" was invented by Gabriele Gelardi (London), Ali Sajjad (London) and Gery Ducatel (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer implemented methods for enrolling a user as an authenticated user of a computing device and for authenticating a user of a computing device are provided. The methods make use of behavioral biometrics to determine a set of shares that represent a secret credential according to a secret sharing scheme. The set of shares is initially determined when the user is enrolled based on t...