ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,690, issued on April 14, was assigned to TYTONICAL Ltd. (Surbiton, Great Britain).

"Systems and methods for transaction authorization" was invented by Grant Sidwell (Surbiton, Great Britain), Matthew Cook (Surbiton, Great Britain) and Andrew Ryrie (Surbiton, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A set of user accounts are maintained, each associated with a corresponding mobile device. Each user account comprises a set of user-identifying features, including at least one of: an image of a user-identifying asset, and information that is derivable from an image of a user-identifying asset. Each user account also comprises the lo...