ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,263, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Verification of liveness data for identity proofing" was invented by Gianpaolo Fasoli (Burlingame, Calif.), Tal Tversky (Austin, Texas), Vinay Sharma (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Hubert Greiche (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject technology include receiving, by a first device and from a second device, a video of a first subject and indications of one or more select frames from the video, selecting one or more additional frames from the video, generating a first confidence score that the video was captured in a single take based on t...