US Patent Issued to IDEMIA IDENTITY & SECURITY FRANCE on July 15 for "Method for estimating an inter-ridge distance relating to a fingerprint" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,748, issued on July 15, was assigned to IDEMIA IDENTITY & SECURITY FRANCE (Courbevoie, France).

"Method for estimating an inter-ridge distance relating to a fingerprint" was invented by Victor Videau (Courbevoie, France) and Guy Mabyalaht (Courbevoie, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprising: generating a classification map comprising, for each block forming part of a plurality of blocks of a test image and for each class of a plurality of classes of distances in pixels, a score indicative of a probability of existence in the test image of a segment passing through the block and the length of which in pixels constitu...