ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,977, issued on March 31, was assigned to VERSANT MEDIA LLC (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.).

"Automatically authenticating and inputting object information" was invented by Qiang Fu (Universal City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to at least one embodiment, a multi-angle multi-time-point method authenticates 2D objects with high confidence by sampling the object through space and time while being capable of automatically authenticating and inputting object information. Some embodiments further enhance authentication confidence by utilizing unique characteristics of hologram and/or personal photo. While this method possesses...