ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,945, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Precise Biometrics AB (Lund, Sweden).

"Method and device for authenticating an identity of a person" was invented by Fredrik Rosqvist (Malmo, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for authenticating an identity of a person may involve acquiring a sample fingerprint image of a finger of the person. Two or more sub-portions may be extracted from the sample fingerprint image to form a plurality of fingerprint test images. A fingerprint recognition may be independently run on the plurality of fingerprint test images. The identity of the person may be authenticated upon a positive outcome...