ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,578, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Polyview Health Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for user authentication in video communications" was invented by Jason Hwang (Henderson, Nev.), Gregory Deocampo (Safety Harbor, Fla.) and Dimitri Arges (Henderson, Nev.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and method are provided for authenticating a user of a communication session. A computing device may receive a video frame from a communication session between a first user device and a second user. The computing device may extract at features from the video frame and execute a neural network using the set of features. The n...