US Patent Issued to AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES on May 19 for "System for biometric user liveness assessment" (Washington, Pennsylvania, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,166, issued on May 19, was assigned to AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Seattle).

"System for biometric user liveness assessment" was invented by Rui Zhao (Bellevue, Wash.), Charles Joseph Tucker Peach (Kirkland, Wash.), Baomin Wang (State College, Pa.), Evan Perillo (Woodinville, Wash.), Abhinav Kashyap (Redmond, Wash.), Manoj Aggarwal (Seattle) and Gerard Guy Medioni (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An input device includes multiwavelength reflectance spectroscopic (MWRS) hardware having a first field of view (FOV) and one or more cameras with respective FOVs that differ from the first FOV. The one or more cameras are used to ob...