Patents by Inventor Patrick Eduard Moffitt Ekel

Patrick Eduard Moffitt Ekel has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20250251208
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and techniques for authenticating biometric data while protecting user privacy. Aspects of the present disclosure include collecting biometric query data at a biometric sensor of the gun, generating a set of query features from the biometric query data, each query feature of the set of query features including a first number of dimensions, generating a projection matrix, each element of the projection matrix being drawn independently from an identical distribution having zero mean and unit variance, transforming the set of query features into a transformed set of query features according to the projection matrix, retrieving a transformed set of enrollment features from memory of the gun, identifying a data match based on the transformed set of query features and the transformed set of enrollment features satisfying a similarity threshold, and unlocking the gun in response to the identifying the data match.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2024
    Publication date: August 7, 2025
    Inventors: Kai Thorin Kloepfer, Christopher James Owens, Patrick Eduard Moffitt Ekel
  • Patent number: 12196511
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and techniques for authenticating biometric data while protecting user privacy. Aspects of the present disclosure include collecting biometric query data at a biometric sensor of the gun, generating a set of query features from the biometric query data, each query feature of the set of query features including a first number of dimensions, generating a projection matrix, each element of the projection matrix being drawn independently from an identical distribution having zero mean and unit variance, transforming the set of query features into a transformed set of query features according to the projection matrix, retrieving a transformed set of enrollment features from memory of the gun, identifying a data match based on the transformed set of query features and the transformed set of enrollment features satisfying a similarity threshold, and unlocking the gun in response to the identifying the data match.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Biofire Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Kai Thorin Kloepfer, Christopher James Owens, Patrick Eduard Moffitt Ekel
  • Publication number: 20230304761
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and techniques for authenticating biometric data while protecting user privacy. Aspects of the present disclosure include collecting biometric query data at a biometric sensor of the gun, generating a set of query features from the biometric query data, each query feature of the set of query features including a first number of dimensions, generating a projection matrix, each element of the projection matrix being drawn independently from an identical distribution having zero mean and unit variance, transforming the set of query features into a transformed set of query features according to the projection matrix, retrieving a transformed set of enrollment features from memory of the gun, identifying a data match based on the transformed set of query features and the transformed set of enrollment features satisfying a similarity threshold, and unlocking the gun in response to the identifying the data match.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2022
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: Kai Thorin Kloepfer, Christopher James Owens, Patrick Eduard Moffitt Ekel
  • Patent number: 11514735
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and techniques for authenticating biometric data while protecting user privacy. Aspects of the present disclosure include collecting biometric query data at a biometric sensor of the gun, generating a set of query features from the biometric query data, each query feature of the set of query features including a first number of dimensions, generating a projection matrix, each element of the projection matrix being drawn independently from an identical distribution having zero mean and unit variance, transforming the set of query features into a transformed set of query features according to the projection matrix, retrieving a transformed set of enrollment features from memory of the gun, identifying a data match based on the transformed set of query features and the transformed set of enrollment features satisfying a similarity threshold, and unlocking the gun in response to the identifying the data match.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Biofire Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Kai Thorin Kloepfer, Christopher James Owens, Patrick Eduard Moffitt Ekel
  • Publication number: 20220319258
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and techniques for authenticating biometric data while protecting user privacy. Aspects of the present disclosure include collecting biometric query data at a biometric sensor of the gun, generating a set of query features from the biometric query data, each query feature of the set of query features including a first number of dimensions, generating a projection matrix, each element of the projection matrix being drawn independently from an identical distribution having zero mean and unit variance, transforming the set of query features into a transformed set of query features according to the projection matrix, retrieving a transformed set of enrollment features from memory of the gun, identifying a data match based on the transformed set of query features and the transformed set of enrollment features satisfying a similarity threshold, and unlocking the gun in response to the identifying the data match.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Kai Thorin Kloepfer, Christopher James Owens, Patrick Eduard Moffitt Ekel