ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,945, issued on March 3, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Enhancing privacy in biometrics-based authentication systems" was invented by Mohamed Zouhaier Ramadhane (Azcapotzalco, Mexico), Ricardo Ramos (Lima, Peru), Syed Ali (Irvine, Calif.), Mauro Marzorati (Lutz, Fla.) and Fernando R Zuliani (Newport Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a method, computer system, and computer program product for privacy-enhanced, biometrics-based authentication is provided. The embodiment may include capturing credential information on a credential medium and biometric informa...