ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,421, issued on April 29, was assigned to TRINAMIX GMBH (Ludwigshafen Am Rhein, Germany).
"Optical skin detection for face unlock" was invented by Peter Schillen (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany), Benjamin Guthier (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany), Friedrich Schick (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany), Manuel Guenther (Zurich), Lars Diesselberg (Karlsruhe, Germany) and Christian Lennartz (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for face authentication is proposed. The method includes at least one face detection step including determining at least one first image by using at least one camera, determining at leas...