ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,433, issued on April 29, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Enhanced biometric authorization" was invented by Ali Hassani (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Justin Miller (Berkley, Mich.), Medha Karkare (Canton, Mich.), Jake Schwartz (Dearborn, Mich.) and John Robert Van Wiemeersch (Novi, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Upon obtaining biometric data for a user of a structure while the user is outside the structure, user data for the user is updated based on a confidence score for the biometric data exceeding a first confidence threshold. Based on the confidence score for the biometric data not exceeding the first c...