ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,299, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Sensor verifier and method" was invented by Yang Peng (Munich), Norbert Stoeffler (Graefeling, Germany) and Michael Paulitsch (Ottobrunn, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may include an image sensor, configured to generate image sensor data representing a vicinity of the device; an image processor, configured to generate a first code from the image sensor data using a code generation protocol; an input validity checker, configured to compare the first code to a second code; and if a similarity of the first code and the second code is within a pre...