ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,635, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Mitek Systems Inc. (San Diego).

"User identification document verifications" was invented by Ashok Singal (San Diego), Michael Ramsbacker (Cardiff, Calif.), James Treitler (San Diego), Sanjay Gupta (Del Mar, Calif.), Michael Hagen (Los Altos, Calif.) and Jason L. Gray (La Jolla, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for user identification (ID) document verification are provided. An exemplary method includes receiving an image of an ID document. A determination is made whether the ID document includes a near-field communications (NFC) chip that stores an ID photo associated ...