US Patent Issued to JVCKenwood on Sept. 15 for "Biometric authentication through vascular studies" (British, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,440, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to JVCKenwood Corp. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Biometric authentication through vascular studies" was invented by Christopher John Wright (London), David Michael Duffy (Zurich) and Harry Michael Cronin (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Introduced here are approaches to authenticating unknown persons based on variations in the spatial properties and directionality of blood flow through vessels over time. At a high level, these approaches rely on monitoring vascular dynamics to recognize unknown persons. For example, an authentication platform may examine digital images of an anato...