US Patent Issued to MasterCard International on Aug. 11 for "Systems and methods for use in biometric-enabled network interactions" (American, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,906, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to MasterCard International Inc. (Purchase, N.Y.).

"Systems and methods for use in biometric-enabled network interactions" was invented by Florent Hay (Laeken, Belgium), Bheemeswara Ankathi (Chesterfield, Mo.), Charl Frederik Botes (Parrish, Fla.), Ji Eun Cha (New York) and Qing Cao (Purchase, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for facilitating network interactions based on user biometrics. One example computer-implemented method includes receiving, from a directory server, a biometric service provider (BSP) assertion having a signature computed using a private ke...