ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,234, issued on July 1, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Face image verification method and apparatus, electronic device, and storage medium" was invented by Yu Chen (Shenzhen, China), Yang Yu (Shenzhen, China) and Zhuo Ma (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of this application provide a face image verification method performed by an electronic device, and a storage medium. In the embodiments of this application, a face image transmitted by a target device is received; then a residual fingerprint of the face image is extracted; then the device fingerprint information corresponding ...