ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,678, issued on July 14, was assigned to JOUF UNIVERSITY (Sakaka, Saudi Arabia).

"Method for performing cross-hand palmprint recognition" was invented by Mohamed Mohamed Ezzeldin Ismail (Sakaka, Saudi Arabia), Ayman Mohamed Mostafa Hassaneen (Sakaka, Saudi Arabia), Meshari D. Alanazi (Sakaka, Saudi Arabia), Majed Abdullah Alrowaily (Sakaka, Saudi Arabia), Bader Munif Aldughayfiq (Sakaka, Saudi Arabia), Hisham Khalaf Allahem (Sakaka, Saudi Arabia), Amjad Faleh Alsirhani (Sakaka, Saudi Arabia) and Mohammed Abdulhamid Alnusayri (Sakaka, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method for performing cross-hand palmprint recognition...