ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,404, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Entrupy Inc. (New York).

"Macroscopic fingerprinting" was invented by Hemanth Kumar Sangappa (Bangalore, India), Aman Jaiswal (Kasia, India), Akhilesh Yadav (Ghazipur, India), Pratik Likhar (Bangalore, India) and Ashlesh Sharma (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of an apparatus, methods, systems and computer program products described herein are directed to a Fingerprint Engine that registers a reference image portraying a physical instance of an object. The Fingerprint Engine captures a query image portraying a physical instance of a target object. The Fingerprint...