ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,803, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"System for biometric input assessment" was invented by Saheb Chhabra (Pratapgarh, India), Rui Zhao (Bellevue, Wash.), Manoj Aggarwal (Seattle), Gerard Guy Medioni (Los Angeles) and Vishal Kaushal (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A machine learning network is trained to determine quality metrics of biometric input data. The quality metrics may include an estimated minutiae density, estimated feature point density, and so forth. Quality metrics are compared to threshold values to determine if the biometric input data is suitable for use. Differ...