US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms Technologies on Aug. 18 for "Polarization sensitive eye authentication system" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,807, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Polarization sensitive eye authentication system" was invented by Mantas Zurauskas (Redmond, Wash.) and Mohamed Tarek Ahmed El-Haddad (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for authentication of a user includes a light source to transmit polarized light, a polarization sensor, and processing logic. The system may cause the light source to illuminate an eye of the user with the polarized light, cause the polarization sensor to take an image of the eye to collect polarization characteristics particular to the eye when illumin...