US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Sept. 23 for "Authentication method and authentication system using biometric information and functional encryption" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,221, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (South Korea).

"Authentication method and authentication system using biometric information and functional encryption" was invented by Heeseok Eun (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Wijik Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An authentication method including, at an apparatus-generating a master secret key and a master public key, generating a secret key and a public key using enrollment target personal information, the master secret key and the master public key, and generating first information using the enrollment target personal information. Comm...