US Patent Issued to Unwind on Dec. 16 for "Method and system for verifying the identity of a user" (Washington, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,196, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Unwind Inc. (Plano, Texas).

"Method and system for verifying the identity of a user" was invented by Brogan Neagle (Austin, Texas) and Paul Thompson (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, method, and computer program product are used to verify the identity of a user implemented on a computer system. This achieved by receiving data in the form of facial images and non-facial identifying data from a user that is evaluated and verified to determine that the user is authentic and the submitted data is verified by a verification entity. The user data is also compared to preexisting data o...