ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,873, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Suprema Inc. (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for fake fingerprints generation, and training method of artificial intelligence for identifying fake fingerprints" was invented by Beom Jun Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Jong Man Lee (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Hochul Shin (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Jae Hyun Park (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Young Mook Kang (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a method for generating a fake fingerprint, performed by a fingerprint generating device, the method comprising: acquiring a fingerprint image tar...