US Patent Issued to IDEMIA IDENTITY & SECURITY FRANCE on March 17 for "Contactless device for capturing a biometric print" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,836, issued on March 17, was assigned to IDEMIA IDENTITY & SECURITY FRANCE (Courbevoie, France).

"Contactless device for capturing a biometric print" was invented by Gregoire Bezot (Courbevoie, France), Elise Le Gouil (Courbevoie, France), Marine Peschaux (Courbevoie, France), Joel-Yann Fourre (Courbevoie, France) and Mokrane Malek (Courbevoie, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a contactless device (1) for capturing a biometric print, said device comprising a user region (10) and an electronic compartment (20), the user region (10) being suitable for receiving a hand portion of a user according to an ori...