US Patent Issued to Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Northern Arizona University on Sept. 1 for "Pseudo-homomorphic authentication of users with biometry" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,370, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Northern Arizona University (Flagstaff, Ariz.).

"Pseudo-homomorphic authentication of users with biometry" was invented by Bertrand F. Cambou (Flagstaff, Ariz.) and Michael L. Garrett (Flagstaff, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for the generation and use of session keys for authentication of a user of a server device are disclosed. The methods use a biological objects of the user to generate responses to challenges. During enrollment, the server device receives a password, hashes it a first number of times, and sends the hash to the user. The u...