ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,034, issued on July 14, was assigned to T Stamp Inc. (Atlanta).

"Multi-factor authentication using tamper-resistant band biometric data" was invented by Gareth Neville Genner (Atlanta) and David Michael Grima (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "User identity authentication and verification systems, methods, and apparatuses are disclosed, including a mobile computing device configured to receive a verification request from a remote computing system, the verification request including instructions for a user to perform a task for verifying his identity. A task includes scanning a band securely attached to the user's body, the band ...