ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,516, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to CAPITAL ONE SERVICES LLC (McLean, Va.).
"Systems and methods for creating seed and master keys for blockchain wallets from user biometrics" was invented by Kevin Osborn (Newton Highlands, Mass.), Xiaoguang Zhu (New York) and Samuel Rapowitz (Roswell, Ga.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are directed to optimizing a security and recoverability trade-off generally associated with cryptocurrency master key storage. Exemplary embodiments provide a biometrically derived cryptographic seed using a measurement of one or more scale invariant biometric attributes associated with a user...