US Patent Issued to UNICOTECH PORTUGAL, UNIPESSOAL LDA on March 24 for "Cascade ensembles for liveness detection" (Emirati, Kazakhstani Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,420, issued on March 24, was assigned to UNICOTECH PORTUGAL, UNIPESSOAL LDA (Lisbon, Portugal).

"Cascade ensembles for liveness detection" was invented by Artem Gerasimov (Dubai, United Arab Emirates), Yury Litvinov (Almaty, Kazakhstan), Ivan Kryachko (Almaty, Kazakhstan), Bakai Zhamgyrchiev (Almaty, Kazakhstan) and Svetlana Efimova (Dubai, United Arab Emirates).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for performing liveness detection. A method includes transmitting an image or a video by a threat detector to one or more filters for a first level check for detecting a threat based on analysis of certain characteristics, tr...