ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,180, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Entrust Corp. (Shakopee, Minn.).

"Live biometric engine performance measurement" was invented by Richard Gauthier (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for measuring true positive and false positive matching rates for a given biometric engine within an operational environment are provided. In some examples, a test, or candidate, biometric engine may be executed, or utilized, in parallel with a production biometric engine, on biometric data that is available during live operation of the production biometric engine. Performance of a biometric engine can be assessed, as to bot...