US Patent Issued to Google on Aug. 12 for "Face authentication anti-spoofing using interferometry-based coherence" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,528, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Face authentication anti-spoofing using interferometry-based coherence" was invented by Octavio Ponce Madrigal (Mountain View, Calif.), Anton Heistser (Munich) and Patrick M. Amihood (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and apparatuses are described that implement face authentication anti-spoofing using interferometry-based coherence. In particular, a face-authentication system uses ultrasound to distinguish between a real human face and a presentation attack that uses instruments to present a version of a human face. The face-authent...