US Patent Issued to Alitheon on March 11 for "Automated authentication region localization and capture" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,136, issued on March 11, was assigned to Alitheon Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Automated authentication region localization and capture" was invented by David Justin Ross (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device includes a processor, a machine-readable memory, and an optical capture device coupled to the processor. The machine-readable memory, which is accessible to the processor, stores processor-executable instructions and data. The processor is configured to perform certain operations responsive to execution of the processor-executable instructions. The certain operations include capturing image data of a first region...