US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on April 29 for "Door handle having vein authentication function" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,811, issued on April 29, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Door handle having vein authentication function" was invented by Hyun Chul Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Junghan Ryu (Seoul, South Korea) and Jung Hoon Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is disclosed a door handle having a vein authentication function including a housing provided in a door; a sensor provided in the housing for sensing a user's hand touching the housing or located in a preset region; a controller receiving a measured value from the sensor part; and an authentication part operating based on a control signal of the c...