ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,691, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).
"Liveness detection for authentication" was invented by Robert J. Kapinos (Durham, N.C.), Scott Li (Cary, N.C.), Robert James Norton Jr. (Raleigh, N.C.) and Russell S. VanBlon (Raleigh, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment provides a method, the method including: transmitting, to a component of a liveness detection system, an electrical signal; detecting, using a detection component of the liveness detection system, an electric field created by contact with the component; determining, using the liveness detection system, that the electric ...