ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,214, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for biometric authentication" was invented by Joydeep Chakraborty (Bangalore, India), Niraj Kumar Sharma (Dhandbad, India), Sabir Valappil Thattath (Bangalore, India), Nabiraj Seethalaprasad (Bangalore, India), Amit S. Mehta (Bangalore, India), Sundaresan Sundaram (Bangalore, India), Avinash G Nijampure (Bangalore, India) and Adam Joel Arruda (Erin, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An authentication screen that prevents access to at least one application via the computing device can be rendered on a display of a computing ...