ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,422, issued on Sept. 9.

"Method and system for verifying image identification" was invented by Leo Portal (Alton, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for verifying the identity of a user sending a facial image is disclosed. The system includes a mobile device interface for receiving a facial image. A facial feature extractor module receives the image and determines identifying features from the facial image. An image template database stores a template image associated with the user of the mobile device. A match processing module receives the facial image and verifies the facial image with the identity of the use...