US Patent Issued to Proxense on Aug. 5 for "Biometric authentication using proximity and secure information on a user device" (Tennessee, Oregon, Illinois, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,797, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Proxense LLC (Bend, Ore.).

"Biometric authentication using proximity and secure information on a user device" was invented by John J. Giobbi (Bend, Ore.), Bryan Kelly (Alamo, Calif.), David L Brown (Chattanooga, Tenn.) and Fred S. Hirt (Brookfield, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method provides biometric authentication using proximity and secure information on a Personal Digital Key (PDK). The PDK is associated with and carried by a user. The PDK wirelessly communicates with a receiver/decoder circuit (RDC) that can be coupled to a variety of electronic devices. The PDK stores a...