ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,757, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Jumio Corp. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
"System and method for biometric template security with password" was invented by Vikas Gottemukkula (Kansas City, Kan.) and Reza R Derakhshani (Shawnee, Kan.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method is described for verifying a user with stored biometric templates. In an enrollment process, at least one biometric image of the user is provided along with a user-specified password. The biometric verification process uses the user-specified password only as needed, such as if the verification process has only a weak match. The method reduces the ...