ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,036, issued on May 13, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Biometric task network" was invented by Ali Hassani (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Hafiz Malik (Canton, Mich.), Rafi Ud Daula Refat (Southgate, Mich.) and Zaid El Shair (Westland, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A deep neural network can provide output from a selected biometric analysis task that is one of a plurality of biometric analysis tasks based on an image. The selected biometric analysis task can be performed in a deep neural network that includes a common feature extraction neural network, a plurality of biometric task-specific neural networks,...