ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,366, issued on May 27, was assigned to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Method and system for energy-efficient multi-biometric authentication" was invented by Farouq Muhammad Aliyu (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Falmata Modu (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Anas Al-Roubaiey (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Audu Musa Mabu (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system and method having an energy-efficient multi-biometric authentication that includes a fingerprint scanner, a camera, a memory, and a processing circuitry. The processing circuitry reads a predefined probability from the memory...