ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,914, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Global Bionic Optics Ltd. (Ebor, Australia).

"System and method for complex confirmation of biometric information without stored biometric data" was invented by Gilles Mathieu (Peng Chau, Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A biometric capture is performed to capture multiple regions of a biometric modality of interest, such as regions of a user's face. A complex representation of the user's biometric data is generated, such that each data point within the complex representation is based on biometric information from multiple of the captured regions. Information that later allows reconstruct...