ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,073, issued on March 3, was assigned to Bolt Financial Inc. (San Francisco).

"Biometric authentication for one-click checkout" was invented by Ashish Sharma (Washington) and Jake William Chiang (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method includes receiving data associated with a first checkout of a first order, where the data comprises a user identifying information, determining that a user account with a transaction processing system associated with the user identifying information exists, determining that a biometric authentication for the user account is not registered with the transaction processing ...