ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,951, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to SCHNEIDER ADVANCED BIOMETRIC DEVICES CORP. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Biometric registration and verification device for aircraft service and maintenance" was invented by David Lyle Schneider (Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system of verifying the performance of a maintenance event on an aircraft includes a series of electronics units, each being associated with an individual in the verification chain for the maintenance event. Each electronics unit is adapted to electronically confirm the identity of the the individual and record the individual's confirmation. The electronics units are ...