ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,816, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to THALES DIS CPL USA INC. (Austin, Texas).

"System and method for verifying an originator of an object using a biometric signature" was invented by Michael Hutchinson (Cedar Park, Texas), Ramandeep Singh (Uttar Pradesh, India) and HongQian Karen Lu (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method (400, 600, 700, 900, 1100, 1200) of verifying an originator of an object using a biometric operation can include the steps of requesting (400, A) a biometric certificate from an enrollment service, capturing and receiving (400, C, D) a biometric reading associated with a user, transformi...