ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,460, issued on April 8, was assigned to MASTERCARD TECHNOLOGIES CANADA ULC (Vancouver, Canada).

"User authentication with biometric data in conjunction with autofill assistance" was invented by Sik Suen Chan (Richmond, Canada) and Perry McGee (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for user authentication with biometric data in conjunction with autofill assistance. In one example, an electronic computing device includes a memory including a user account and an electronic processor communicatively coupled to the memory. The electronic processor is configured to rec...