US Patent Issued to Verizon Patent and Licensing on May 6 for "System and method for facial recognition" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,568, issued on May 6, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"System and method for facial recognition" was invented by Prakash Ranganathan (Tamilnadu, India) and Nithya Vasudevan (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example, based upon a first image of a face of a first person, a plurality of augmented images may be generated. Based upon the first image and the plurality of augmented images, a first set of facial feature representations may be generated. A second image comprising a representation of a face of a second person may be identified. A second facial feature representation m...