ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,617, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to HID Global Corp. (Austin, Texas).
"Porous platen for biometric scanning" was invented by Daniel Henri Raguin (Jupiter, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various approaches are described herein for enhancing biometric scanning in a biometric scanning system. For example, a porous region of a platen can be wetted with a liquid, the porous region sized and shaped for contact with skin of a subject (such as a finger or palm), and the porous region defining respective pore structures to house the liquid for wetting the skin when the skin is in contact with the porous region. Topological features of ...