US Patent Issued to Visa International Service Association on April 22 for "Delegated biometric authentication" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,539, issued on April 22, was assigned to Visa International Service Association (San Francisco).

"Delegated biometric authentication" was invented by Sunpreet Singh Arora (San Mateo, Calif.) and Maliheh Shirvanian (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A delegated biometric authentication system and related methods are disclosed. Using the system, a user can securely delegate biometric authentication to a public device from his communication device. This public device may be an Internet of things device that is not owned by the user, such as a computer, smart TV, tablet, etc. The public device may operate in a public place,...