ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,797, issued on July 14, was assigned to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES (Paris).

"Conditional authentication access control method" was invented by Renaud Sirdey (Gif-sur-Yvette, France), Aymen Boudguiga (Gif-sur-Yvette, France) and Martin Zuber (Gif-sur-Yvette, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling access of a user equipped with a terminal to a physical or logical resource, the method involving a secure cryptographic device forming a token corresponding to an access criterion, the access token being intended to generate a keystream masking a biometric reference of the user obta...