ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,771, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to onGRID Sports Technology GmbH (Berlin).

"System for authenticating and/or identifying a user" was invented by Simon Norman (Wiesbaden, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an authentication and/or identification system (10) for authenticating and/or identifying a user, with at least one storage module (22); at least one authentication and/or identification element (40) that is uniquely assigned to a user; at least one input and data collection module (24) which is not accessible to the user and by means of which the authentication and/or identification element...