ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,812, issued on June 23, was assigned to Idemia Identity & Security France (Courbevoie, France).

"Systems and methods for document authentication" was invented by Rein-Lien Hsu (Edison, N.J.), Brian Martin (McMurray, Pa.) and Alexandru Bogdan (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for authenticating a subject identification document includes a memory section storing computer-executable instructions and a memory section storing an enrolled document template, ROI information, and a codebook representing partitions of a [Cb, Cr] color plane. The system includes a processor in communication with the memory. The processor execut...