US Patent Issued to STONE LOCK GLOBAL on Feb. 18 for "Methods and apparatus for facial recognition using non-visible light" (Kansas, New Mexico Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,230,059, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to STONE LOCK GLOBAL INC. (Overland Park, Kan.).

"Methods and apparatus for facial recognition using non-visible light" was invented by James Trani (Albuquerque, N.M.) and David Douglas Dunlap (Leawood, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure include methods for generating a sampled profile including a plurality of sampling points having a plurality of characteristic values associated with the detected non-visible light, identifying one or more macroblocks each includes a subset of the plurality of sampling points, calculating a number of occurrences of the local patt...