ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,865, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Jumio Corp. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"System and methods for camera challenge response to ascertain camera pipeline integrity and to detect digital injections, virtual cameras, and camera pipeline attacks" was invented by Reza Derakhshani (Shawnee, Kan.), Haonan Li (Lenexa, Kan.) and Vikas Gottemukkula (Alexandria, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique for interrogating a camera pipeline is disclosed. The camera pipeline is issued a challenge command instructing a response by the camera pipeline. The challenge may include the camera pipeline capturing images at specified camera parameter ...