ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,119, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Cirque Corp. (Sandy, Utah).
"User identification with a capacitance module" was invented by Daniel Ferguson (Herriman, Utah), Ethan Sturm (Salt Lake City) and Brian Monson (Farmington, Utah).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A capacitance module may include a set of electrodes, a processor in communication with the set of electrodes, and memory in communication with the processor. The memory may include programmed instructions that cause the capacitance module, when executed, to determine a user identity by comparing input attributes of an unprompted input with at least one user attribute stored in...