ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,072, issued on March 18, was assigned to Private Identity LLC (Potomac, Md.).

"Systems and methods for private authentication with helper networks" was invented by Scott Edward Streit (Woodbine, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Helper neural network can play a role in augmenting authentication services that are based on neural network architectures. For example, helper networks are configured to operate as a gateway on identification information used to identify users, enroll users, and/or construct authentication models (e.g., embedding and/or prediction networks). Assuming, that both good and bad identification information sampl...