US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Aug. 18 for "Uncertainty aware fusion of biometric data" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,812, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Uncertainty aware fusion of biometric data" was invented by Rui Zhao (Bellevue, Wash.), Rajeev Ranjan (Seattle), Manoj Aggarwal (Seattle) and Gerard Guy Medioni (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Biometric data may be subject to internal and external factors that complicate assessment. Internal factors include variations due to physiological changes, such as dilation or constriction of blood vessels. External factors include variations in pose, illumination, cosmetics, and so forth. One or more machine learning networks are trained to accept as inpu...