ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,395, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Himax Technologies Ltd. (Tainan, Taiwan).

"Anti-spoofing authentication system" was invented by Ti-Wen Tang (Tainan, Taiwan), Chin-Kuei Hsu (Tainan, Taiwan), Ching-Han Chou (Tainan, Taiwan), Bo-Ying Huang (Tainan, Taiwan) and Tzu-Hsu Chen (Tainan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An anti-spoofing authentication system includes an image capture device that converts received light into an image signal representing a captured image; a microphone that converts sound wave into a voice signal; a face detection device that detects a human face on the captured image, the face detection device in...