ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,277, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to UNIONCOMMUNITY Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method for managing user who uses fingerprint authentication and fingerprint authentication system therefor" was invented by Young Hyun Baek (Seoul, South Korea) and Yo Shik Shin (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are method for managing user who uses fingerprint authentication and fingerprint authentication system therefor. The fingerprint authentication system of the present invention may perform reuse registration of access authentication that allows again or re-registers access authentication for a pre-registered user....