ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,958, issued on July 14.

"Biometric multi-factor authentication" was invented by Nimish Agarwal (Bangalore, India), Ravi Kumar Bhojwani (Bangalore, India), Sanket Garg (Bangalore, India) and Vivek Joshi (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for providing multi-factor authentication using biometric data collected from a wearable. A disclosed method includes: receiving an authentication request for a user to access a resource via a client device; fetching a stored heartrate-voice (HRV) profile of the user; obtaining current heart data of the user from a wearable; obtaining a current voice sample of the use...