ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,093, issued on July 15, was assigned to Carbyne Biometrics LLC (New York).

"Authentication translation" was invented by Bjorn Markus Jakobsson (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Authentication translation is disclosed. A request to access a resource is received at an authentication translator, as is an authentication input. The authentication input corresponds to at least one stored record. The stored record is associated at least with the resource. In response to the receiving, a previously stored credential associated with the resource is accessed. The credential is provided to the resource."

The patent was filed on Oct. 23,...