US Patent Issued to George Mason University on June 23 for "Hyperspectral imaging of biofluids for biometric applications" (Virginia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,658, issued on June 23, was assigned to George Mason University (Fairfax, Va.).

"Hyperspectral imaging of biofluids for biometric applications" was invented by Emanuela Marasco (Alexandria, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Hyperspectral imaging (HSI) of biofluids for biometric applications is disclosed. A HSI device scans a region of a human subject's skin with sweat thereon, without requiring the human subject to touch any surface. The resulting HSI data is processed to identify aspects of the data that represent physical and/or chemical features that uniquely identify the subject. Processing the HSI data includes identifying one ...