US Patent Issued to Capital Once Services on Oct. 7 for "Fingerprint-based credential entry" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,043, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Capital Once Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Fingerprint-based credential entry" was invented by Eric K. Barnum (Midlothian, Va.) and Robert Dwane Wokaty Jr. (Glen Allen, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a physical medium for fingerprint-based PIN entry may include a fingerprint scanner, one or more memories that store fingerprint data and a PIN, and one or more processors. The physical medium may receive power from a terminal that is in communication with the physical medium. The physical medium may scan a fingerprint using the fingerprint scanner and the power received f...