ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,686, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).
"Biometric access to service providers" was invented by Jonathan Regalado (Lynnwood, Wash.), Kirk W. McGettigan (Bellevue, Wash.), Sheetal Guttigoli (Bellevue, Wash.) and Dustin Martinka (Issaquah, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A contact may select to use a biometric input to access help and services related to the contact. On a portable computing device, a user may contact a help service. The help service contact address may be known and an app may execute if the contact attempts to communicate with the contact address. The app may receive the biomet...