ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,096, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Securiport LLC (Reston, Va.).

"In-vehicle biometric collection and verification" was invented by Nathan Thomas Carpenter (Washington), Roberto Leandro Olie (Washington), Marcelo Motta (Washington) and Enrique Segura (Washington).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Within a vehicle, and at a border crossing, a verification device enables unsupervised or automatic biometric authentication of subjects (i.e., persons or travelers) moving between secured areas (e.g., across a border or into a secured facility, for example). Verification device is configured to store reference biometric information for one...