ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,163, issued on July 29, was assigned to Jumio Corp. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
"Spoof detection using eye boundary analysis" was invented by Spandana Vemulapalli (Kansas City, Mo.) and David Hirvonen (New York City, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for determining that a subject is a live person using a color-coded sequence including a sequence of colors. A subject is illuminated in accordance with the sequence of colors. A sequence of images of the subject is captured, where the sequence of images is temporally synchronized with illumination by the color-coded sequence. A filtered r...