ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,038, issued on May 13, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus with liveness detection" was invented by Solae Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Youngjun Kwak (Seoul, South Korea), Sungheon Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Byung In Yoo (Seoul, South Korea), Yong-Il Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hana Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jiho Choi (Seoul, South Korea) and Jaejoon Han (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor-implemented method with liveness detection includes: receiving a plurality of phase images of different phases; generating a plurality of preprocessed phase im...