ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,757, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to The Toronto-Dominion Bank (Toronto).

"Systems and methods for controlling access to data records" was invented by Harjot Singh Panag (Brampton, Canada), Nipaben Shelat (Brampton, Canada), Karandeep Puri (Toronto) and Kevin Wayne Faragher (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method is disclosed. The method includes: enabling an access control for a data record, wherein enabling the access control comprises imposing a set of restrictions on accessing the data record; receiving at least one biometric data capture for a user and a digital form of at least one identificatio...