US Patent Issued to Google on March 18 for "Methods, systems, and media for secure authentication of users based on a biometric identifier and knowledge-based secondary information" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,011, issued on March 18, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Methods, systems, and media for secure authentication of users based on a biometric identifier and knowledge-based secondary information" was invented by David Stein (New York), Ryan Vilim (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and John Wittrock (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and media for secure authentication of users using one or more biometric recognition systems are provided. In some embodiments, the method comprises: receiving an indication that a biometric identifier is to be used to authenticate a user to a service; receiving (i) the bi...