ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,167, issued on May 19.
"Liveness detection" was invented by Laurence Hamid (Ottawa) and Stephen Borza (Ottawa).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Biometrics are increasingly used to provide authentication and/or verification of a user in many security and financial applications for example. However, "spoof attacks" through presentation of biometric artefacts that are "false" allow attackers to fool these biometric verification systems. Accordingly, it would be beneficial to further differentiate the acquired biometric characteristics into feature spaces relating to live and non-living biometrics to prevent non-living biometric credentials ...