ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,376, issued on May 27, was assigned to ADEIA GUIDES INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Adaptive biometric authentication" was invented by Jeffry Copps Robert Jose (Tamil Nadu, India) and Ankur Anil Aher (Maharashtra, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are presented for adaptive biometric authentication. According to one example method, a failure of a first type of biometric authentication is detected. In response to detecting the failure of the first type of biometric authentication, an alternative type of authentication is completed. In response to completing the alternative type of authentication, a biometric character...