US Patent Issued to HID Czech s.r.o., HID Global on Feb. 24 for "Secure biometric algorithm provision" (Czech, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,417, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to HID Czech s.r.o. (Prague) and HID Global Corp. (Austin, Texas).

"Secure biometric algorithm provision" was invented by Vito Fabbrizio (Berkeley, Calif.) and Vladimir Lieberzeit (Prague).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods may be used for operation of a hardware fingerprint processing device. A method may include receiving an update including a fingerprint authentication algorithm, verifying a digital signature of the fingerprint authentication algorithm, and in response to verifying the digital signature, loading the fingerprint authentication algorithm into the memory. The loaded...