ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,270, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to DEUTSCHE TELEKOM AG (Bonn, Germany).
"Method and system for authenticating a user" was invented by Dominik Schnieders (Aachen, Germany), Stephan Spitz (Karlsfeld, Germany) and Hermann Geupel (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for authenticating a user includes: an application frontend of a face recognition application, upon receipt of a face recognition request from an application backend of the face recognition application, causes a terminal device to activate a camera of the terminal device; the application frontend receives a video stream of a face of the user captured by the ...