Glenn Kaufman, a cybersecurity engineer at defense contractor Raytheon, had been searching for ways to improve computer authentication. He read about an effort to use pressure sensitive gun grips to authenticate a gun owner, and wondered if something similar might work for a computer mouse.

Four years later, Kaufman was recently awarded a patent for a biometric pressure grip that describes how a mouse can be used to authenticate someone.

“Today’s world is based on layers of security, so the more layers that you can add to your system the better,” said Kaufman, in an interview. “This is just an added layer to basically authenticate you to the system.”

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