ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,095, issued on May 13, was assigned to SECUVE Co. Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for authenticating handwritten signature based on multiple authentication algorithms" was invented by Ki-Yoong Hong (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to the present disclosure, a handwritten signature to be authenticated is received, a plurality of pieces of signature behavioral characteristic information are extracted, all of the plurality of the pieces of the extracted signature behavioral characteristic information are applied to each of first and second signature authentication algorithms using different t...