Citibank N.A. and PNC Bank N.A. incorporated biometric authentication features such as fingerprint and facial recognition into their mobile banking apps without patent owner PACid Technologies LLC’s permission, the company claimed in a pair of lawsuits.
The patent-assertion entity accused both banks of infringing six biometric-authentication patents in separate, nearly identical complaints filed Tuesday in the US District Court for the Western District of Texas.
PACid’s US Patent Nos. 9,577,993; 9,876,771; 10,044,689; 10,171,433; 10,484,344; and 11,070,530—all of which cover systems and methods of authenticating users, according to the filings.
“The claimed methods and systems allow for authentication of users and ...
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