ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,580, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to ASSA ABLOY AB (Stockholm).

"Second factor authentication as compensation for biometric temporal changes" was invented by James Scott Voss (Clovis, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer readable medium having executable code to: receive at least one of a first image of the user or a first representation of a face of the user; if a first image of the user was received, then generate a generated representation of the face of the user using the first image; capture a second image of the user and generate a second representation of the face of the user using the second image; receiving an a...