ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,435, issued on June 3, was assigned to CHINA UNIONPAY Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"Biometric identification method, server, and client" was invented by Zhijun Fei (Shanghai), Xuetao Qiu (Shanghai), Tao Tang (Shanghai), Wenji Xing (Shanghai), Pengfei Gao (Shanghai) and Yanming Yang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure pertains to a biometric recognition method, the method comprising: receiving biometric data; performing a random transformation of low-bit data in received biometric data; randomly selecting one or more filtering algorithms to pre-process randomly transformed biometric data; and performing identity verificatio...