ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,902, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Trulioo Information Services Inc. (Vancouver, Canada).

"Generating a reliable biometric hash" was invented by Mauritius Alexander Schmidtler (Escondido, Calif.), Oz Hanoch Wilson (San Diego), Hyder Al Asadi (El Cajon, Calif.) and Chahm An (Poway, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for generating reliable biometric hashes are provided. In some examples, a method includes receiving one or more input images and performing pre-processing on the one or more input images. In some examples, the pre-processing includes a face detection, landmark estimation, and liveness check. In...