ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,354, issued on June 2, was assigned to ams-OSRAM Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"3D face recognition system" was invented by Loic Perruchoud (Rechy, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A three-dimensional (3D) face recognition system includes a structured light sensor or stereo camera sensor. The 3D face recognition system also includes a time-of-flight sensor. The 3D face recognition system further includes a processor. The processor is configured to run algorithms for face recognition on data from the structured light sensor or stereo camera sensor. The processor is also configured to use distance data from the time-of-f...