ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,127, issued on April 22, was assigned to Identy Inc. (Dover, Del.).

"Method for obtaining data from an image of an object of a user that has a biometric characteristic of the user" was invented by Hardik Gupta (Jabalpur, India), Satheesh Murugan (Ramapurum, India) and Saneesh Bhaskaran (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes obtaining, by a processing device from an optical sensor of a mobile device, an image of an object. The method further includes processing, by the processing device, the image to identify the object in the image. Processing the image includes calculating at least one of a distance map or...