ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,949, issued on May 13, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Utilizing sensor data for automated user identification" was invented by Zheng Tang (Redmond, Wash.), Prithviraj Banerjee (Redmond, Wash.), Manoj Aggarwal (Seattle) and Gerard Guy Medioni (Los Angeles).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes a user-recognition system that may perform one or more verification methods upon identifying a previous image that matches a current image of a palm of a user. For instance, the user-recognition system may perform the verification method(s) as part of the recognition method (e.g., after recognizing a match...