ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,625, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Liveness detection method and apparatus, electronic device, and storage medium" was invented by Jia Meng (Shenzhen, China), Dongheng Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Jian Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Mingwei Bi (Shenzhen, China), Xinzhe Deng (Shenzhen, China), Shouhong Ding (Shenzhen, China) and Jilin Li (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liveness detection method includes: obtaining a reflected audio signal and video data of a object in response to receiving a liveness detection request; performing signal processing and time-frequency analysis o...