ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,952, issued on May 27, was assigned to Worldcoin Foundation (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands).
"Computing system for distributing cryptocurrency" was invented by Alex Blania (Erlangen, Germany), Max Novendstern (San Francisco), Philipp Sippl (Erlangen, Germany), Christian Brendel (Erlangen, Germany), Sandro Herbig (Erlangen, Germany), Luis Wenus (Erlangen, Germany) and Shravan Nageswaran (Erlangen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system receives a code that is generated based upon an image of an iris of a first user. The image of the iris of the first user is captured by way of an iris scanning device that is under co...