ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,590, issued on April 22, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).
"Biometric system and method" was invented by Matthew Sanders (London), Richard Downey (London), Oliver Hume (London) and Michael Karl Werle (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user input device includes an optical window facing onto a region of skin of the user when the user input device is in normal use, a monochromatic light source arranged to emit light through the optical window, a spectral dispersal unit adapted to disperse the spectrum of light reflected back from the region of skin of the user, the reflected light no longer being wholly ...