ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,237, issued on March 17, was assigned to Alclear LLC (New York).

"Intelligent gallery management for biometrics" was invented by Kevin Lupowitz (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system provides intelligent gallery management for biometrics. A first gallery is obtained that includes biometric and/or other information on a population of people. An application is identified. A subset of the population of people is identified based on the application. A second gallery is derived from the first gallery by pulling the information for the subset of the population of people without pulling the information for the population of peop...