ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,414, issued on April 29, was assigned to VERIDIUM IP Ltd. (London).

"Systems and methods for performing fingerprint based user authentication using imagery captured using mobile devices" was invented by Asem Othman (Worcester, Mass.), Richard Tyson (Oxfordshire, Great Britain), Aryana Tavanai (Oxford, Great Britain), Yiqun Xue (Quincy, Mass.) and Andrew Simpson (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technologies are presented herein in support of a system and method for performing fingerprint recognition. Embodiments of the present invention concern a system and method for capturing a user's biometric features and generating an identi...