ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,626, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Jumio Corp. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
"Liveness detection" was invented by Vikas Taliwal (South Hamilton, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure includes a system and method for detecting liveness including generating a first cue for presentation to a user via a client device, the first cue for inducing a first action when the user is live; receiving sensor data representing a first reaction by the user to the first cue; determining, based on the first reaction, whether the first reaction satisfies a threshold; and determining that the user is live based on a determination that the first ...