ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,745, issued on July 28, was assigned to iProov Ltd. (London).
"Biometric methods for online user authentication" was invented by Andrew Bud (London) and Andrew Newell (West Sussex, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for authenticating a genuine presence of a human involve directing one or more modulated probes towards a body part of the human, receiving a response to the probes from the body part, and analyzing the response to determine whether it contains spectral characteristics that match a class of responses to such probes for the human body part in a human population. Replay attacks are countered by varying the...