ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,627, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Seattle).

"System for multi-modality mismatch determination" was invented by Manoj Aggarwal (Seattle), Rajeev Ranjan (Seattle) and Gerard Guy Medioni (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A biometric identification system uses inputs of a user that are acquired using different modalities. A model having an intersection branch is trained to determine an embedding using features present in two or more modalities (an intersection of modalities). A first input acquired using a first modality is processed by the model to determine a first embedding. A second input acqui...