ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,949, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to RESIDEO LLC (Golden Valley, Minn.).

"Enhanced sequential biometric verification" was invented by Maoding Su (Shanghai), Yanqing Yang (Shanghai) and Yekun Gao (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure is directed to a sequential biometric verification system and process. A device receives (502) a first biometric input and determines a match with a first predetermined biometric input of a verification sequence. The device provides (504) a first prompt that includes a request for a next biometric input user selection or a complete verification sequence user selection. The device rec...