ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,723, issued on May 13, was assigned to Visa International Service Association (San Francisco).
"Method, system, and computer program product for authentication" was invented by Maliheh Shirvanian (Cupertino, Calif.), Mihai Christodorescu (Belmont, Calif.), Daniel Siegfried Werner Masny (Palo Alto, Calif.), Ivan De Oliveira Nunes (Fullerton, Calif.) and Peter Byerly Rindal (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method for authentication. The method may include receiving first password data, first biometric input data, and first secret key data. A second secret key may be generated based on the first secret key and...