ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,680, issued on March 25, was assigned to SUPREMA INC. (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

"Device and method for determining counterfeit fingerprints and recording medium including command for performing method of training neural network to determine counterfeit fingerprints" was invented by Jong Man Lee (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Young Mook Kang (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Jae Hyun Park (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Hochul Shin (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Bong Seop Song (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of determining a counterfeit fingerprint by a system for determining a counterfeit fingerprint that incl...