US Patent Issued to INTERACTIVE GAMES on June 23 for "Biometric-based user identity verification for gambling application" (Connecticut, Nevada, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,858, issued on June 23, was assigned to INTERACTIVE GAMES LLC (New York).

"Biometric-based user identity verification for gambling application" was invented by Dean P. Alderucci (Westport, Conn.), Joseph M. Asher (Las Vegas) and Antonio Papageorgiou (Bronx, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application provides methods and corresponding systems for accessing services on a gaming device which, in certain embodiments, include the step or steps of obtaining at least one item of identity verification data from a user of a gaming device; encrypting the at least one item of identity verification data; comparing the at least o...