ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,462, issued on April 15, was assigned to Brandwidth10 LTD. (Berkeley, Calif.).

"Apparatus for facial recognition" was invented by Carlos Fernando Rondina Mateus (Berkeley, Calif.), Christopher Chase (Berkeley, Calif.), Michael C. Y. Huang (Taipei, Taiwan), Murat Serbay (Berlin), Stefano Prandoni (Berlin) and D. Philip Worland (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for facial recognition is provided that includes a camera. One or more images are configured to: determine a pseudo-random sequence of image capture modes for a plurality of groups of image captures, wherein each group includes at least a capture using...