ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,712,060, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Multi-modal crypto/bio-human-machine interface" was invented by Sam Emaminejad (Los Angeles), Shuyu Lin (Los Angeles), Jialun Zhu (Los Angeles) and Wenzhuo Yu (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present embodiments relate to a multimodal cryptographic bio-human machine interface ("CB-HMI"), which seamlessly translates the user's touch-based entries into encrypted biochemical, biophysical, and biometric indices. The CB-HMI features thin hydrogel-coated chemical sensors and inference algorithms to non-invasively and incon...