ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,009, issued on May 13, was assigned to Smart Engines Service LLC (Moscow).

"Method for detecting holographic elements on documents in a video stream" was invented by Vladimir Viktorovich Arlazarov (Moscow), Leisan Ildarovna Koliaskina (Ufa, Russia), Dmitry Petrovich Nikolaev (Moscow), Dmitry Valerevich Polevoy (Moscow), Daniil Vyacheslavovich Tropin (Moscow) and Sergey Aleksandrovich Usilin (Moscow).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting security holograms on documents in a video stream is disclosed, including: searching for interest points and calculating descriptors in a frame; filtering of interest points in the prev...