MUMBAI, India, May 1 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202611026469 A) filed by Sharda University, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, on March 6, for 'biometric merchant payment terminal.'

Inventor(s) include Shivank Mehrotra; Mehak Parashar; Dr. Sudeep Varshney; and Krtikay Sharma.

The application for the patent was published on May 1, under issue no. 18/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Disclosed is a biometric merchant payment terminal comprising a housing positioned at a merchant point of sale, a fingerprint sensor configured to capture a biometric fingerprint, a secure cryptographic processor configured to generate an encrypted biometric template, and a transact...