ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,012, issued on March 18, was assigned to ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY (Hangzhou, China) and ZJU-HANGZHOU GLOBAL SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION CENTER (Hangzhou, China).

"Method and device for privacy protection biometric authentication, and electronic device" was invented by Bingsheng Zhang (Hangzhou, China), Zhigao Wang (Hangzhou, China) and Kui Ren (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and an apparatus for privacy protection biometric authentication and an electronic device. The method comprises the following steps: constructing a corresponding a biological data template according to a biological information dat...