US Patent Issued to Capital One Services on July 22 for "Biometric authentication-based token" (Virginia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,269, issued on July 22, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Biometric authentication-based token" was invented by 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 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 from the terminal. The physical medium may compare scanned fingerpr...