US Patent Issued to Apple on Nov. 11 for "Identity recognition utilizing face-associated body characteristics" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,323, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Identity recognition utilizing face-associated body characteristics" was invented by Nitin Gupta (Cupertino, Calif.), Jingwen Zhu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Jonghoon Jin (Cupertino, Calif.), Andrew C. Edwards (Altadena, Calif.), Floris Chabert (San Francisco), Vinay Sharma (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Hendrik Dahlkamp (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for determining whether to include a bodyprint in a cluster of bodyprints associated with a recognized person. For example, a device performs facial recognition to identify the ident...