ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,645, issued on July 1, was assigned to LOGIN ID INC. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"User device gated secure authentication computing systems and methods" was invented by Simon Law (San Mateo, Calif.) and Pasan Chankama Hapuarachchi (San Anselmo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is provided that allows users to execute a secure transaction that is authenticated by their user device. Personally identifiable information (PII), such as, but not limited to, biometric authentication data, is locally stored on the user's device so as to protect the PII. A user device private key is associated with the particular user device and the use...