ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,130, issued on April 22, was assigned to Jumio Corp. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Spoof detection by generating 3D point clouds from captured image frames" was invented by Gregory Lee Storm (Parkville, Mo.) and Reza R. Derakhshani (Shawnee, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving a first sequence of images of a first subject captured over a time period in which relative locations of the image acquisition device with respect to the first subject varies. A first image and a second image are selected as representing a first and second relative locations, respectively, of the image acquisition device with respect to the f...