ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,932, issued on April 21, was assigned to NAMECHEAP INC. (Phoenix).

"Secure online ID validation and review" was invented by Phillip Mckegney (Milton, Canada) and Hicham Al Mallah (North Maten, Lebanon).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of detecting fraudulent activity during authenticating users and user identifications includes initiating a user's device to capture a sequence of images of the user to be authenticated commencing when the camera is operational and prior to receiving from the user a selection of the control that triggers capture of images and/or continuing until detecting that the user has selected the control to...