ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,930, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Biometric task network" was invented by Ali Hassani (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Hafiz Malik (Canton, Mich.), Zaid El Shair (Westland, Mich.), John Robert Van Wiemeersch (Novi, Mich.) and Justin Miller (Berkley, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Output can be provided from a selected biometric analysis task that is one of a plurality of biometric analysis tasks based on an image provided from an image sensor. The selected biometric analysis task can be performed in a deep neural network that includes a common feature extraction neural network, a plural...