ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,339, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Suprema Inc. (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

"Device and method for classifying biometric authentication data" was invented by Hyogi Lee (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Kideok Lee (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Bong Seop Song (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for adding biometric authentication training data into databases performed by a biometric authentication data classification device includes: extracting first biometric characteristic information from at least one candidate biometric training data for biometric authentication using an artificial neural network mod...