US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on May 20 for "Identifying consumers in a transaction via facial recognition" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,432, issued on May 20, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Identifying consumers in a transaction via facial recognition" was invented by Sashikanth Chandrasekaran (Belmont, Calif.), Dmitry Kalenichenko (Marina del Rey, Calif.) and Timothy Raymond Zwiebel (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A merchant and a user register with a payment processing system, which establishes a facial template based on a user image. The user signs into a payment application via a user computing device, which receives an identifier from a merchant beacon device to transmit to the payment processing system. The payment pr...