ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,859, issued on April 29, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Biometric liveness authentication method and electronic device" was invented by Juwoan Yoo (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Wonsuk Jang (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain embodiments of the disclosure disclose a method and a device, the device including a display, a camera module disposed under the display, at least one light source disposed to correspond to the camera module, a memory, and a processor operatively connected to the display, the camera module, the light source, and/or the memory. The processor may ...