ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,235, issued on March 17, was assigned to FaceTec Inc. (Las Vegas).

"Facial recognition and/or authentication system with monitored and/or controlled camera cycling" was invented by Kevin Alan Tussy (Las Vegas), Josh Rose (San Diego) and Hunter Hedinger (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting video feed injection during an authentication session comprising initiating an authentication session which utilizes a video feed from a camera, the camera part of a computing device that is used to capture video of a user during the authentication session. Next, activating the camera to obtain a video feed, monitoring f...