US credit card issuer applies for patent on ID service booster

Mastercard has applied for a U.S. patent on ways to improve biometric identity resolution needed for mobile transactions. The transactions could be purchased or service enrollment.

An ID services vendor is quoted doubting the uniqueness of Mastercard's idea, however. And the card issuer has already been expanding into digital ID services.

Application 20230289419 describes math that would take video images captured by multiple reference and subject cameras, find the best image match from each of the two categories of …

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