ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,389, issued on March 17, was assigned to SMART PACKAGING SOLUTIONS (Rousset, France).

"Structure and methods for mobile enrolment of biometrically-authorisable smartcards" was invented by Robert Mueller (Riemerling, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A structure for aligning a biometrically-authorisable smartcard with respect to a smartphone during biometric enrolment of the smartcard. The structure includes a smartcard area for receiving the smartcard and a guide for aligning the structure in a predetermined position with respect to the smartphone. The alignment structure is configured such that, when the smartcard is received ...