ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,228, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Suprema Inc. (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

"Fingerprint recognition device and method, and method for training artificial neural network for fingerprint image restoration in the fingerprint recognition device" was invented by Young Mook Kang (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Ho Chul Shin (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Jong Man Lee (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a fingerprint recognition device. The device comprises an acquisition unit that acquires an original fingerprint image; a memory including instructions for generating a restored fingerprint image from ...