ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,069, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Integrated Solutions International LLC (Winston-Salem, N.C.).

"Systems and methods for age verification" was invented by Michael F. Sweeney (Winston-Salem, N.C.) and Thomas J. Stopyra (Winston-Salem, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for age verification are disclosed. According to one disclosed embodiment, a system includes: a scanner configured to scan a passive data source on an identification card; and a processor coupled to the scanner, the processor configured to: receive a scanner signal from the scanner; verify an age of a user based on the scanner signal; and tran...