US Patent Issued to Identy on June 24 for "Liveliness detection using a device comprising an illumination source" (Delaware Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,619, issued on June 24, was assigned to Identy Inc. (Dover, Del.).

"Liveliness detection using a device comprising an illumination source" was invented by Jesus Aragon (Dover, Del.) and Hardik Gupta (Dover, Del.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for identifying a user uses a computing device comprising an illumination source that, when activated, emits visible light, the method comprising taking two images of a scene potentially comprising a living body part carrying a biometric characteristic, wherein a first image is taken without the illumination source activated and the second image is taken with the il...