ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,731, issued on July 21, was assigned to HYPERVERGE INC. (Irving, Texas).

"Method and system for detection of a fraudulent action using face database search and retrieval" was invented by Manideep Kolla (Nellore, India), Ayush Pandey (Mumbai, India), Aravinth Muthu (Ganapathy, India), Hariprasad P S (West Mambalam, India) and Vignesh Krishnakumar (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for detection of a fraudulent action using face database search and retrieval is given. The method identifies fraudulent action using a combination of images captured in real-time, feature vector extraction, and metadata match...