ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,957, issued on July 14, was assigned to BIGO TECHNOLOGY PTE. LTD. (Mapletree Business City, Singapore).

"Method for authenticating identity, and terminal, storage medium, and program product thereof" was invented by Yan Li (Guangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method for authenticating identity. The method includes: generating a target random mapping function in response to an identity verification instruction, wherein a random mapping function is a function defined to randomly map characters into gestures; displaying a virtual keyboard based on the target random mapping function, wherein password conversion ...