US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 30 for "Authentication of images based on projected encoded pattern" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,417, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Authentication of images based on projected encoded pattern" was invented by Jonas Weiss (Oberrieden, Switzerland), Robert Dean Lovchik (Schoenenberg, Switzerland), Alessandro Sorniotti (Zurich) and Julia Hesse (Langnau am Albis, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mechanisms for verifying a captured digital image are provided. A verifier computing system generates, in response to a request to perform digital identity verification of a subject, a computer readable first encoded pattern. Light projecting equipment of the verifier co...