US Patent Issued to IDEMIA IDENTITY & SECURITY FRANCE on March 24 for "Method and system for processing biometric data" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,382, issued on March 24, was assigned to IDEMIA IDENTITY & SECURITY FRANCE (Courbevoie, France).

"Method and system for processing biometric data" was invented by Herve Chabanne (Courbevoie, France) and Vincent Despiegel (Courbevoie, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention proposes a method for processing personal data, having the steps of (a) Functional encryption of candidate personal data using a functional encryption public key, (b) For at least one reference personal data, functional decryption of the encrypted candidate biometric data using a functional decryption private key for the polynomial function of degree 1...