ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,364, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to UAB 360 IT (Vilnius, Lithuania).

"Optimized authentication system for a multiuser device" was invented by Mindaugas Valkaitis (Vilnius, Lithuania).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure discloses encrypting a folder stored on a user device based on utilizing a symmetric key; encrypting, based on utilizing a public key associated with the user device, the symmetric key to determine a single-encrypted symmetric key; transmitting, to a biometric unit available to the user device, a request to capture biometric information; verifying the biometric information based on a comparison of ...