US Patent Issued to IDEMIA IDENTITY & SECURITY FRANCE on Sept. 23 for "Contactless biometric acquisition sensor and method" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,020, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to IDEMIA IDENTITY & SECURITY FRANCE (Courbevoie, France).

"Contactless biometric acquisition sensor and method" was invented by Joel-Yann Fourre (Courbevoie, France), Alexis Sireta (Courbevoie, France) and Jean Beaudet (Courbevoie, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A contactless biometric sensor, including an upper face above which, in use, a human body part which has dermatoglyphs is positioned, a lighting source configured to light the human body part through the upper face and an imager configured to acquire an image of the human body part through the upper face. The upper face of the se...