ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,225, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Contactless biometric authentication methods and systems" was invented by Lulu Jiao (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application relates to an image capturing method and apparatus, a computer device, a storage medium, and a computer program product, for performing contactless biometric authentication. The contactless biometric authentication technique may include in response to a virtual character display operation triggered by a target part of a target object, controlling a display element to display a virtual chara...