US Patent Issued to Mastercard International on Aug. 18 for "System and method for secure authentication and verification of document signing sessions using a biometric smart pen" (Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,280, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Mastercard International Inc. (Purchase, N.Y.).

"System and method for secure authentication and verification of document signing sessions using a biometric smart pen" was invented by David Vorhies (Saint Charles, Mo.), Christopher T. Scholl (Manchester, Mo.) and Shawn Mehrhoff (Sappington, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for secure authentication and recording of a document signing session using a smart pen device. The techniques include capturing biometric data of a user through a biometric sensor in the smart pen. The techniques also involve capturing real-time sig...