ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,667, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Block Inc. (Oakland, Calif.).
"Identity verification using payment instrument(s)" was invented by Oliver S.C. Quigley (New York).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An identity verification system and method includes downloading a software layer to access an identifier from payment cards and cause a reader device to translate payment protocol data from the payment cards to security key protocol data. A request to access a computing resource may be received and the user may be prompted to cause an interaction between the payment card and the reader device. The software layer may translate data receive...