ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,414, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"System and method for generating synthetic profiles for training biometric verification systems" was invented by Emanuele Dalmasso (Moncalieri, Italy), Claudio Vair (Borgone Susa, Italy) and Haydar Talib (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer program product, and computing system for generating a statistical model representative of a plurality of natural biometric profiles, wherein each natural biometric profile is associated with an individual. A model of variability in the natural biometric profile associated with an...