ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,105, issued on July 15, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Signature verification" was invented by Tianyi Chen (Redmond, Wash.) and Sheng Yi (Redmond, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for signature verification. Signature verification may be provided for target signatures using genuine signatures. A signature verification model pipeline may extract features from a target signature and a genuine signature, encode and submit both to a neural network to generate a similarity score, which may be repeated for each genuine signature. A targe...