US Patent Issued to PHOTO-ME on March 31 for "Method for acquiring a photographic portrait of an individual and apparatus implementing this method" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,120, issued on March 31, was assigned to PHOTO-ME Ltd. (Epsom, Great Britain).

"Method for acquiring a photographic portrait of an individual and apparatus implementing this method" was invented by Christian Croll (Claix, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This method for acquiring photographic portraits of an individual consists: in acquiring a biometric image of the face of the individual by means of at least one digital camera (22), concomitantly with this acquisition, illuminating said face of the individual with at least two separate light sources that are not centered on said face, said light sources consisting of light-emi...