US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on Jan. 28 for "Biometric authentication of streaming content" (Canadian, Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,794, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Biometric authentication of streaming content" was invented by Jun Su (Beijing), Hamid Majdabadi (Ottawa), Jeremy R. Fox (Georgetown, Texas) and Su Liu (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, a computer system and a computer program product control access to streaming media content. The method includes identifying the streaming media content on a content server for transmission to a user. The method also includes acquiring a biometric marker from the user using a computer vision system. The method furthe...