ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,925, issued on Jan. 20, 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: "Proposed herein are systems for face authentication. The systems are configured to classify an object based on a distribution of light intensity."
The patent was filed on March 24, 2025, under A...