US Patent Issued to Proxense on Sept. 8 for "Two-level authentication for secure transactions" (Oregon Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,151, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Proxense LLC (Bend, Ore.).

"Two-level authentication for secure transactions" was invented by John J. Giobbi (Bend, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method provide efficient, secure, and highly reliable authentication for transaction processing and/or access control applications. A Personal Digital Key stores one or more profiles (e.g., a biometric profile) in a tamper-proof memory that is acquired in a secure trusted process. Biometric profiles comprise a representation of physical or behavioral characteristics that are uniquely associated with an individual that owns and carri...