ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,439, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Biometric verification using biometric feature transformation" was invented by Musa Maharramov (The Woodlands, Texas), Kathleen Hajash (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Brian Patton (San Francisco), Jeong Kim (Suwon, South Korea), Jaewoong Choi (Gangnam-Gu Seoul, South Korea) and Dean Reading (Surfers Paradise, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method includes accessing query biometric data associated with a verification request for a user. The method further includes applying a transformation to the query biometric data to...