ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,964, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Korea Institute of Science and Technology (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method for contact verification based on received signal similarity and apparatus thereof" was invented by Taikjin Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Hankyeol Kyung (Seoul, South Korea), Chansoo Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Sangkyung Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Beomju Shin (Seoul, South Korea) and Taehun Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a contact verification technology based on signal similarity, and an apparatus of contact verification receives and stores spatiotemporal signal informat...