ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,687, issued on March 18, was assigned to Communications Test Design Inc. (West Chester, Pa.).
"Method and system to detect components of facial recognition system" was invented by Sanket Mishra (Sacramento, Calif.) and Nidhin Davis (Glen Mills, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of determining an operating status of one or more hardware components of a facial recognition system of a mobile device includes engaging the facial recognition system of the mobile device, wherein the facial recognition system comprises a dot projector and an infrared ("IR") camera; capturing an image of the dot projector and the IR camera; compari...