US Patent Issued to IDEMIA PUBLIC SECURITY FRANCE on July 22 for "Systems and methods for document authentication" (New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,696, issued on July 22, was assigned to IDEMIA PUBLIC SECURITY FRANCE (Courbevoie, France).

"Systems and methods for document authentication" was invented by Rein-Lien Hsu (Edison, N.J.), Brian Martin (McMurray, Pa.) and Alexandru Bogdan (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for authenticating a subject identification document includes instructions causing a processor to receive a first image of the document, depicting, in RGB color space, the document illuminated by UV light, and transform the first image to a second image in YCbCr color space. The instructions cause the processor to divide the second image into regions ...