ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,808, issued on May 20, was assigned to Suprema Inc. (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

"Forged fingerprint identification method and forged fingerprint identification apparatus, and storage medium storing instructions to perform forged fingerprint identification method" was invented by Bong Seop Song (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Jong Man Lee (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Jae Hyun Park (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Young Mook Kang (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Hochul Shin (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a forged fingerprint identification method. The method comprises obtaining a first fingerprint image ...