ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,054, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Face verification method and apparatus" was invented by Changyong Son (Anyang-si, South Korea), Deoksang Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Minsu Ko (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jinwoo Son (Seoul, South Korea), Seungju Han (Seoul, South Korea), Chang Kyu Choi (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Jae-Joon Han (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A face verification method and apparatus is disclosed. The face verification method includes selecting a current verification mode, from among plural verification modes, to be implemented for the ve...