ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,089, issued on May 13, was assigned to SideAssure Inc. (Camas, Wash.).

"Wearable identity device for fingerprint bound access to a cloud service" was invented by Siva G. Narendra (Portland, Ore.), Prabhakar Tadepalli (Bangalore, India), Saurav Chakraborty (West Bengal, India) and Donald Allen Bloodworth (Camas, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A personal digital ID device provides a digital identifier to a service for a predetermined duration in response to user interaction. The user interaction may include a button press. The personal digital ID device may be in the form of a bracelet, a key fob, or other form factor. The servic...