Patent ID: 11866007
Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  G  H | IPC B  G  H

Claim 18:
19. A system comprising:
a vehicle controller;
one or more vehicle sensors in electronic communication with the vehicle controller and configured to capture user authentication data of a user of a vehicle;
a rider authentication server configured to send via the blockchain database an authentication ID associated with the user, verify an identity of the user of the vehicle by at least fetching user biometric template data from one or more blocks of a blockchain database for decentralized storage, wherein the verifying comprises the rider authentication server configured to receive a transaction token comprising the authentication ID and the captured user authentication data and perform a verification of the transaction token using the fetched user biometric template data; and
the blockchain database in communication with the rider authentication server and the vehicle controller, wherein the blockchain database is configured to receive the user biometric template data from the user during an enrollment of the user and store the user biometric template data on the one or more blocks of the blockchain database according to one or more blockchain security requirements dictated by the rider authentication server, further wherein the user biometric template data is not stored in the rider authentication server;
wherein the rider authentication server comprises a central node of the blockchain database.