ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,526, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Mobile device user authorization system" was invented by Xiang Xu (New Hyde Park, N.Y.), Tianchen Zhao (Bellevue, Wash.), Jonathan Wu (Seattle) and Joseph P. Tighe (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques are disclosed for authorizing users based on biometric data. Images are collected from an authorized user are used to generate three-dimensional representations of the user that are stored for use in authorization operations. Images accompanying a request for authorization are first processed using liveness detection operations and t...