US Patent Issued to AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES on May 26 for "Token-based biometric payment processing system" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,714, issued on May 26, was assigned to AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Seattle).

"Token-based biometric payment processing system" was invented by Tamer Avci (Seattle), Priyank Gandhi (Fremont, Calif.), Aditya Goel (Seattle) and Aneeta Bhattacharyya (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A token-based biometric payment processing system facilitates point-of-sale (POS) processing of payments. A biometric identification provider (BIP) receives a single-use token (SUT) from a payment processor (PP). The SUT is associated at the PP with a payment account on file (PAOF) and with an identity at the BIP. Upon identification at a scanner ...