ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,099, issued on May 13, was assigned to NOTA INC. (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for continuous authentication" was invented by Myungsu Chae (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a method and apparatus for continuous authentication. An authentication method includes receiving image frames taken by a camera in succession, detecting a face area in the image frames, tracking a change in a location of the detected face area in the image frames, and performing continuous user authentication for the face area according to the change in the location by using the face area whose change in the locati...