US Patent Issued to Visa International Service Association on July 8 for "Verification of biometric templates for privacy preserving authentication" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,891, issued on July 8, was assigned to Visa International Service Association (San Francisco).

"Verification of biometric templates for privacy preserving authentication" was invented by Saikrishna Badrinarayanan (Los Angeles), Peter Rindal (San Francisco) and Pratyay Mukherjee (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Secure protocols for external-facing authentication are provided for both user templates stored on their devices and the biometric measurement captured by external sensors of an access device. The protocols provide different levels of security, ranging from passive security with some leakage to active security w...