ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,760, issued on July 15, 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: "Disclosed herein is a method for face authentication. The method includes the following steps: a) at least one face detection step including determining at least one first image by using at least...