US Patent Issued to IDLOOP on Dec. 30 for "Device and method for contactless recording of fingerprints and handprints" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,945, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to IDLOOP GMBH (Jena, Germany).

"Device and method for contactless recording of fingerprints and handprints" was invented by Bernd Reinhold (Jena, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device, for contactless optical recording of a papillary structure of a hand or parts thereof, includes a lighting unit illuminating the hand or parts thereof with emitted structured light, and a camera detecting structured light emitted from the lighting unit, which is diffusely reflected from the hand or parts thereof in an object plane of the camera. A nonzero difference in distances between the camera along a...