ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,406, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to IDEMIA PUBLIC SECURITY FRANCE (Courbevoie, France).
"Method and system for encoding a list of minutiae of a dactylogram" was invented by Laurent Kazdaghli (Courbevoie, France) and Victor Videau (Courbevoie, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer-implemented method for encoding a list of minutiae of a dactylogram, said method taking, as input data, the coordinates associated with each minutia from a list of minutiae of a dactylogram, and providing, as output datum, a fixed-size encoding vector which is representative of the list of the minutiae of said dactylogram, the method comprising ...