US Patent Issued to Santa Clara Holdings on Jan. 28 for "System and method for facial recognition authentication for mask wearers" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,611, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Santa Clara Holdings LLC (Dallas).

"System and method for facial recognition authentication for mask wearers" was invented by Ralph de la Torre (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for authenticating a face mask with a user for providing secure access to a user device whereby received on the user device is a request from the user to pair a user face mask having a pre-printed unique identifier with the user device for user authentication purposes. The user device captures an image of the pre-printed unique identifier on the user face mask so as to associate the captured ima...