ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,781, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for re-registering pre-registered identity information in new identity recognition system" was invented by Jae Yoon Jang (Daejeon, South Korea), Jae Hong Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Ho Sub Yoon (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for re-registering pre-registered identity information in a new identity recognition system. A method of re-registering identity feature information in an identity recognition system according to...