ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,153, issued on June 23, was assigned to IDEMIA PUBLIC SECURITY FRANCE (Courbevoie, France).
"Image-acquiring system for performing biometric recognition of an iris of an individual" was invented by Jean-Francois Siwek (Courbevoie, France), Ngoc-Son-Dorian Nguyen (Courbevoie, France), Jean-Michel Teyrol (Courbevoie, France) and Rahma Ait Bouhou (Courbevoie, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image-acquiring system, including a holder and a subsystem mounted on the holder, the subsystem including an image-acquiring device configured to acquire at least one image along an axis of sight, a reflective element arranged transversely t...