ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,397, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to IDEMIA IDENTITY & SECURITY FRANCE (Courbevoie, France).

"Method for checking individuals with simplified authentication" was invented by Laurent Mercier (Courbevoie, France), Pascal Duville (Courbevoie, France), Joost Van Prooijen (Courbevoie, France) and Joel Viellepeau (Courbevoie, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for checking an individual having an identity document on a medium comprising an electronic chip in which a reference biometric datum of the individual is stored and capable of displaying an automatic reading zone representing an optical reading datum of the identity...