ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,794, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY (Fairfax, Va.).

"Systems and methods for gait-based user authentication for lightweight resource-constrained wearable devices" was invented by Dinakarrao Sai Manoj Pudukotai (Herndon, Va.) and Pavlos Zouridakis (Fairfax, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for gait-based user authentication, includes a processor and a memory. The memory includes instructions stored thereon, which when executed by the processor, cause the system to: access data relating to a gait of a user; provide the data as an input to an early escape network (EENet) having two or more early ex...