ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,659, issued on May 12, was assigned to The Huntington National Bank (Columbus, Ohio).

"Biometric identification for resource access distribution" was invented by Timothy Gorman (Columbus, Ohio) and Jason W. Black (Columbus, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Resource access distribution can be managed by biometric identification. For example, a system can receive a request from a device indicating an identity of a user and an intention of the user to access a resource of a computing system. The system can determine biometric data associated with an individual within a predetermined distance from the terminal. The system can decompose...