ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,339, issued on July 8, was assigned to Tokenize Inc. (Rochester, N.Y.).

"Biometric recognition and security system" was invented by Evan Krueger (Rochester, N.Y.), John Dvorak (West Liberty, Iowa) and Melanie Shapiro (Livonia, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Biometric recognition systems and methods are described, including a biometric recognition system including a user system with a biometric able to scan a finger and provide an image. From the image, a plurality of features may be extracted to create at least one fingerprint feature vector using a convolutional neural network."

The patent was filed on Oct. 4, 2021, under Appli...