ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,511, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to IDEMIA PUBLIC SECURITY FRANCE (Courbevoie, France).

"Automatic system and method for document authentication using portrait fraud detection" was invented by Rein-Lien Hsu (Edison, N.J.) and Brian Martin (McMurray, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An authentication processing system includes a memory storing a portrait fraud detection application, and a processing unit coupled with the memory and configured to execute the portrait fraud detection application. The portrait fraud detection application, when executed, configures the processing unit to receive a capture of a document including a p...