ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,686, issued on July 14, was assigned to Ant Blockchain Technology (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).

"Face liveness detection methods and apparatuses" was invented by Jianshu Li (Hangzhou, China) and Yan Xu (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments of this specification provide face liveness detection computer-implemented methods, devices, and media. In an example, multiple face images continuously captured for a first user are obtained. Two face images are selected from the multiple face images for a target attribute in one or more predetermined image attributes, where a degree of difference between two attribute...