ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,941, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to UNICOTECH PORTUGAL, UNIPESSOAL LDA (Lisbon, Portugal).

"System and method of liveness detection with preservation of original image characteristics" was invented by Artem Gerasimov (Dubai, United Arab Emirates), Yury Litvinov (Almaty, Kazakhstan), Ivan Kryachko (Almaty, Kazakhstan), Bakai Zhamgyrchiev (Almaty, Kazakhstan) and Svetlana Efimova (Dubai, United Arab Emirates).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for detecting liveness of imagery data. The imagery data, i.e., an image, is captured by an imagery application installed on a smartphone. The image is encoded and transferred ...