US Patent Issued to ASSA ABLOY on June 17 for "Embedded encrypted watermark in photograph or facial recognition template to ensure authenticity" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,983, issued on June 17, was assigned to ASSA ABLOY AB (Stockholm).

"Embedded encrypted watermark in photograph or facial recognition template to ensure authenticity" was invented by James Scott Voss (Clovis, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for permitting access to a secure asset, the device including: at least one processor; and memory storing instructions to: receive a first image of a user from a credential device of the user, the first image being at least one of embedded with an encrypted key, encrypted, or comprising a watermark; at least one of verify the embedded encrypted key, decrypt the first image, or verify...