ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,245, issued on June 23, was assigned to IDEX Biometrics ASA (Oslo, Norway).

"System and method for secure biometric enrollment" was invented by Fred George Benkley (Middleton, Mass.) and David Joseph Geoffroy (North Andover, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for secure biometric enrollment includes externally activating a user device, obtaining an initial biometric sample of a user subsequent to externally activating the user device, storing the initial biometric sample as a trusted sample in a trusted template, obtaining at least one subsequent biometric sample, comparing the at least one subsequent biometric ...