US Patent Issued to Visa International Service Association on Sept. 8 for "Use of biometrics and privacy preserving methods to authenticate account holders online" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,372, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Visa International Service Association (San Francisco).

"Use of biometrics and privacy preserving methods to authenticate account holders online" was invented by Jason Blackhurst (San Francisco), Kim Wagner (Sunnyvale, Calif.), John F. Sheets (San Francisco), Chunxi Jiang (San Francisco) and Sunpreet Singh Arora (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are directed to a method for securely performing biometric authentication online. The method described can be used to securely perform biometric authentication on a mobile device. For protecting the privacy of the user's biome...