Patents by Inventor Robert Andrew Eckel

Robert Andrew Eckel has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11625721
    Abstract: Some implementations provide a method that includes: generating an association, at a mobile device, between a government-issued identification document of a user and a mode of payment; receiving, at the mobile device, a presentation of the government-issued identification document of the user to support a request for payment; validating whether the presented government-issued identification document is a valid identification of the user; and in response to validating the presented government-issued identification document, proceeding with payment by using the mode of payment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Inventors: Robert Andrew Eckel, Mohamed Lazzouni
  • Patent number: 11373265
    Abstract: Some implementations may include a computer-assisted method for authenticating a person at a point of service, the method including: receiving a digital identification document including a digital biometric of the person and a digital watermark, the digital watermark encoding personally identifiable information of the person; retrieving the digital watermark from the received digital identification document; extracting the personally identifiable information from the retrieved digital watermark; and authenticating the person identified by the digital biometric based on the retrieved digital watermark.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Idemia Identity & Security USA LLC
    Inventors: Daniel Poder, Robert Andrew Eckel
  • Publication number: 20210264427
    Abstract: Some implementations provide a method that includes: generating an association, at a mobile device, between a government-issued identification document of a user and a mode of payment; receiving, at the mobile device, a presentation of the government-issued identification document of the user to support a request for payment; validating whether the presented government-issued identification document is a valid identification of the user; and in response to validating the presented government-issued identification document, proceeding with payment by using the mode of payment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Inventors: Robert Andrew Eckel, Mohamed Lazzouni
  • Patent number: 11087426
    Abstract: Some implementations may provide a method that includes: receiving, at a mobile device, data encoding a first digital watermark present on the identification document; extracting a first portion of personally identifiable information encoded by a spatial luminance pattern associated with the first digital watermark; receiving, at a mobile device, data encoding a second digital watermark present on the identification document; extracting a second portion of personally identifiable information encoded by a spatial luminance pattern associated with the first digital watermark; and validating the identification document based on at least one of the first portion of personally identifiable information or the second portion of personally identifiable information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: MorphoTrust USA, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel Poder, Robert Andrew Eckel
  • Patent number: 10957005
    Abstract: Some implementations may include a method for watermarking an identification document, the method including: modulating a spatial luminance pattern associated with a first digital watermark to encode a first portion of personally identifiable information; modulating a spatial chrominance distribution associated with a second digital watermark to encode a second portion of the personally identifiable information; and applying the first digital watermark and the second digital watermark to the identification document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: MorphoTrust USA, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel Poder, Robert Andrew Eckel
  • Patent number: 10943233
    Abstract: Some implementations provide a method that includes: generating an association, at a mobile device, between a government-issued identification document of a user and a mode of payment; receiving, at the mobile device, a presentation of the government-issued identification document of the user to support a request for payment; validating whether the presented government-issued identification document is a valid identification of the user; and in response to validating the presented government-issued identification document, proceeding with payment by using the mode of payment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: MorphoTrust USA, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Andrew Eckel, Mohamed Lazzouni
  • Publication number: 20210026979
    Abstract: In some implementations, a computer-implemented method and system for enrolling customers into a digital identification program may include obtaining, from a digital identification database, customer information that describes a customer, providing to the customer device an access code for activation, receiving a request from the customer device for the digital identification, where the request includes the access code and customer information that describes the customer, providing a request for secure information that describes the customer from a secure information database, receiving the secure information that describes the customer stored in the secure information database, generating the digital identification for the customer based on the secure information and the customer information, and providing the digital identification to the customer device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Inventors: Robert Andrew Eckel, A. David Kelts
  • Patent number: 10692167
    Abstract: Some implementations may include a method for watermarking an identification document, the method including: modulating a spatial luminance pattern associated with a first digital watermark to encode a first portion of personally identifiable information; modulating a spatial chrominance distribution associated with a second digital watermark to encode a second portion of the personally identifiable information; and applying the first digital watermark and the second digital watermark to the identification document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: MorphoTrust USA, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel Poder, Robert Andrew Eckel
  • Patent number: 10678939
    Abstract: In some implementations, a computer-implemented method and system for enrolling customers into a digital identification program may include obtaining, from a digital identification database, customer information that describes a customer, providing to the customer device an access code for activation, receiving a request from the customer device for the digital identification, where the request includes the access code and customer information that describes the customer, providing a request for secure information that describes the customer from a secure information database, receiving the secure information that describes the customer stored in the secure information database, generating the digital identification for the customer based on the secure information and the customer information, and providing the digital identification to the customer device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: MorphoTrust USA, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Andrew Eckel, A. David Kelts
  • Patent number: 10679105
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for identifying, by a computer system, at least one line of a plurality of lines that are disposed at a first layer of a card; providing, by the computer system and based on the identified at least one line, control signals to a laser device of the computer system, the control signals indicating coordinates for the identified at least one line; generating, by the laser device and based on the control signals, one or more line patterns that are embedded at a particular layer of the card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Idemia Identity & Security USA LLC
    Inventors: Robert L. Jones, Robert Andrew Eckel
  • Publication number: 20200126082
    Abstract: Some implementations provide a method that includes: generating an association, at a mobile device, between a government-issued identification document of a user and a mode of payment; receiving, at the mobile device, a presentation of the government-issued identification document of the user to support a request for payment; validating whether the presented government-issued identification document is a valid identification of the user; and in response to validating the presented government-issued identification document, proceeding with payment by using the mode of payment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Inventors: Robert Andrew Eckel, Mohamed Lazzouni
  • Publication number: 20190364038
    Abstract: Some implementations may include a computer-assisted method for digitizing an identification document, the method including: receiving a digital biometric of a subject; applying the received digital biometric to a digital identification document; applying a digital watermark to the digital identification document, the digital watermark encoding personally identifiable information of the subject identified by the digital biometric; and generating the digital identification document with the applied digital watermark, the digital identification document comprising both the digital watermark and the digital biometric.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Inventors: Daniel Poder, Robert Andrew Eckel
  • Publication number: 20190362458
    Abstract: Some implementations may include a computer-assisted method for authenticating a person at a point of service, the method including: receiving a digital identification document including a digital biometric of the person and a digital watermark, the digital watermark encoding personally identifiable information of the person; retrieving the digital watermark from the received digital identification document; extracting the personally identifiable information from the retrieved digital watermark; and authenticating the person identified by the digital biometric based on the retrieved digital watermark.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Applicant: MORPHOTRUST USA, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel Poder, Robert Andrew Eckel
  • Patent number: 10474891
    Abstract: Some implementations provide a machine-assisted method for screening a person, the method including: receiving, at a scanning device, an identification document presented by the person, the identification document showing a machine-readable code that encodes personally identifiable information of the person, a biometric of the person, and printed information; scanning the machine-readable code on the identification document to extract personally identifiable information of the person; comparing the extracted personally identifiable information against records stored at a database; determining that the extracted personal identifiable information matches a record stored at the database; receiving data encoding the biometric of the person on the identification document for comparison with the person presenting the identification document; receiving a determination that the biometric from the identification document identifies the person presenting the identification document; and determining whether the identifi
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: MorphoTrust USA, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Andrew Eckel, Thiagarajan Saravanan
  • Patent number: 10460163
    Abstract: Some implementations may include a method for watermarking an identification document, the method including: receiving a digitally watermarked digital facial portrait of the person, the digital facial portrait embedded with at least one digital watermark identifying payload data linking the digital facial portrait to the person portrayed in the digital facial portrait; receiving results of comparison between the digital facial portrait of the person and the person presenting the digitally watermarked digital facial portrait; retrieving the at least one digital watermark in response to receiving comparison results that the person portrayed in the digital facial portrait is the person presenting the digitally watermarked digital facial portrait; and determining that the digital facial portrait is authentic based on the retrieved at least one digital watermark.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: MorphoTrust USA, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel Poder, Robert Andrew Eckel
  • Publication number: 20190205713
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for identifying, by a computer system, at least one line of a plurality of lines that are disposed at a first layer of a card; providing, by the computer system and based on the identified at least one line, control signals to a laser device of the computer system, the control signals indicating coordinates for the identified at least one line; generating, by the laser device and based on the control signals, one or more line patterns that are embedded at a particular layer of the card.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Publication date: July 4, 2019
    Inventors: Robert L. Jones, Robert Andrew Eckel
  • Publication number: 20190202229
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for identifying one or more layers of a document, where at least one layer is an inner layer having a particular depth; determining a spectral feature from among multiple spectral features for application to the one or more layers of the document; determining a particular type of line segment code for application to the one or more layers of the document; and generating an identification document by: i) applying the spectral feature; and ii) applying the particular type of line segment code to the inner layer having the particular depth, wherein the particular depth is determined relative to at least one other layer of the document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2018
    Publication date: July 4, 2019
    Inventors: Robert L. Jones, Yecheng Wu, Daoshen Bi, Robert Andrew Eckel
  • Patent number: 10332191
    Abstract: A steganographic-based ordering system and method using a digital identification (ID) are described. A user may obtain a digital ID card on a user device and select modes for interacting with the vendor. Using the digital ID, the user can create a personal profile that indicates the user's preferences, and place an order for an item (e.g., a product or service) through the digital ID. The order may be steganographically-embedded along with user data within the digital ID. The digital ID including the steganographically-em bedded order is transmitted to a digital ID reader located at the vendor. When completing an order for the user, the digital ID reader may de-embed user and order data from the received digital ID to obtain information about the user and provide more personalized service to complete the order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: MorphoTrust USA, LLC
    Inventor: Robert Andrew Eckel
  • Publication number: 20190188821
    Abstract: Some implementations may include a method for watermarking an identification document, the method including: modulating a spatial luminance pattern associated with a first digital watermark to encode a first portion of personally identifiable information; modulating a spatial chrominance distribution associated with a second digital watermark to encode a second portion of the personally identifiable information; and applying the first digital watermark and the second digital watermark to the identification document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2019
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Applicant: MorphoTrust USA, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel Poder, Robert Andrew Eckel
  • Patent number: 10320778
    Abstract: Some implementations may include a computer-assisted method for digitizing an identification document, the method including: receiving a digital biometric of a subject; applying the received digital biometric to a digital identification document; applying a digital watermark to the digital identification document, the digital watermark encoding personally identifiable information of the subject identified by the digital biometric; and generating the digital identification document with the applied digital watermark, the digital identification document comprising both the digital watermark and the digital biometric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: MorphoTrust USA, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel Poder, Robert Andrew Eckel