ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,410, issued on May 26, was assigned to IDEMIA IDENTITY & SECURITY FRANCE (Courbevoie, France).
"Method for verifying the authencity of a fingerprint" was invented by Alain Thiebot (Courbevoie, France), Julien Doublet (Courbevoie, France) and Jean Beaudet (Courbevoie, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A biometric verification method for verifying the authenticity of a fingerprint acquisition of a reference image of a reference fingerprint including acquisition of a candidate image of a candidate fingerprint, geometric comparison between the geometric characteristic of the pattern of said reference print and the geometric characteri...