ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,362, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Jumio Corp. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Multi-modal verification and authentication system and methods" was invented by Daryl Huff (Saratoga, Calif.), Jeetendra Kaul (Los Gatos, Calif.), Thomas Krump (Buchkirken, Austria), Attila Balogh (Vienna), Alix Melchy (Montreal), Stuart Wells (Saratoga, Calif.) and Lukas Danzer-Stauffer (Maria Anzbach, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-modal verification and authentication system can be used for customer onboarding and repeat customer access/interactions. The multi-modal verification and authentication system provides very low friction, highly sec...