US Patent Issued to IDEMIA IDENTITY & SECURITY FRANCE on June 3 for "Method and device for biometric identification and/or authentication" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,430, issued on June 3, was assigned to IDEMIA IDENTITY & SECURITY FRANCE (Courbevoie, France).

"Method and device for biometric identification and/or authentication" was invented by Joel-Yann Fourre (Courbevoie, France), Jean Beaudet (Courbevoie, France) and Alain Thiebot (Courbevoie, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for biometric identification or authentication is described. An image of a body region is obtained. A truth map for said body region is obtained, said truth map associating, with each portion of a set of portions of said image of a body region, a probability that said portion belongs to a true body region. T...