US Patent Issued to Tencent Technology on July 15 for "Authentication method and apparatus of biometric payment device, computer device, and storage medium" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,412, issued on July 15, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Authentication method and apparatus of biometric payment device, computer device, and storage medium" was invented by Qi Cui (Shenzhen, China), Zhijun Geng (Shenzhen, China), Runzeng Guo (Shenzhen, China) and Shaoming Wang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An authentication method of a biometric payment device includes: acquiring a key of the biometric payment device, the key being a key recognized by a payment authentication server and acquired through communication between a manufacturer device and the payment authentication server...