US Patent Issued to MASTERCARD ASIA/PACIFIC on March 25 for "Method and system for biometric payments" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,410, issued on March 25, was assigned to MASTERCARD ASIA/PACIFIC PTE. LTD. (Singapore).

"Method and system for biometric payments" was invented by Tobias Puehse (Merlot Ville, Singapore), Abhinava Srivastava (Singapore) and Michihiko Yoden (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for biometric payments comprises: receiving biometric data obtained by a biometric reader device from a user who is registered for biometric payments with a merchant; determining a biometric identifier that is associated with the biometric data; determining a stored payment credential that is associated with the biometric identifier, wherein the s...