ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,943, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and electronic device for identifying user" was invented by Pankaj Chanchlani (Ajmer, India), Saurabh Kumar Shrivatsava (Noida, India), Ashwini Kumar Kulshrestha (Noida, India), Tarun Gupta (Noida, India) and Prabhat Kumar Gupta (Noida, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for identifying a user of an electronic device, includes: capturing at least one image frame of a portion of the user's face; extracting facial descriptors from the at least one image frame of the portion of the user's face; generating first facial descrip...