ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,236, issued on March 3, was assigned to LG CNS Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Continuous use authentication method, device, and recording medium" was invented by Yoo Bin Im (Seoul, South Korea), Kyung Tae Ko (Seoul, South Korea), Gi Wan Park (Seoul, South Korea), Byeong Kweon Park (Seoul, South Korea), Seungun Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Tai Heon Hong (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A continuous use authentication method includes: acquiring a normal state image and a current image for a user; determining an inferred classification state for the user from among a plurality of classification states by applying the ...