US Patent Issued to Jumio on Nov. 3 for "Biometric authentication using head-mounted devices" (Missouri, Kansas, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,621, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Jumio Corp. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Biometric authentication using head-mounted devices" was invented by Reza R. Derakhshani (Shawnee, Kan.), Yash Joshi (Kansas City, Mo.) and Vikas Gottemukkula (Alexandria, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A head-mounted wearable device includes a frame mountable on a head of a user; an infrared imaging device arranged to image a face of the user when the frame is mounted on the head of the user; and a computing system configured to perform operations including causing the infrared imaging device to capture an image of the face of the user using infrared light r...