ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,020, issued on May 13, was assigned to AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Seattle).

"System to assess biometric input data" was invented by Alon Shoshan (Haifa, Israel), Nadav Israel Bhonker (Talmei Elazar, Israel), Igor Kviatkovsky (Haifa, Israel), Manoj Aggarwal (Seattle), Gerard Guy Medioni (Los Angeles), Lior Zamir (Ramat Hasharon, Israel) and Ori Linial (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user performs an enrollment process to utilize a biometric identification system. This includes acquisition of biometric input data. Accuracy of subsequent identification is improved by utilizing high quality input data during enrollment. In...