US Patent Issued to iProov on June 30 for "Binding of multiple biometrics" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,240, issued on June 30, was assigned to iProov Ltd. (London).

"Binding of multiple biometrics" was invented by Andrew Newell (West Sussex, Great Britain) and Joseph A. Palmer (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain biometric authentication and verification methods use multiple biometric modalities of a given user in order to enhance their security. Circumvention of such methods sometimes involves presenting multiple biometrics as if they come from a single user when, in fact, they arise from more than one person. To thwart such attacks, it is necessary to bind multiple biometric modalities to each other. One binding method cap...