US Patent Issued to Georgetown University on July 29 for "Facial recognition using 3D model" (Virginia, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,150, issued on July 29, was assigned to Georgetown University (Washington).

"Facial recognition using 3D model" was invented by Cristopher Flagg (Annandale, Va.) and Ophir Frieder (Chevy Chase, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technologies are described for reconstructing facial models which are preserved images or images captured from security cameras. The reconstructed models can be three-dimensional (3D) point clouds and can be compared to existing facial models and/or other reconstructed models based on physical geometry. The 3D point cloud models can be encoded into one or more latent space feature vector representations which...