ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,433, issued on June 10, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Spoof images for user authentication" was invented by Rafi Ud Daula Refat (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Hafiz Malik (Canton, Mich.), Ali Hassani (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Justin Miller (Berkley, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A facial recognition authentication system and method include obtaining a current image in response to a request for facial recognition authentication of a user. A set of current image features are generated from the input image. Live image features and spoof image features are retrieved for the user. Then a determination is output...