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FaceTec reaches 50 issued patents with grant on autonomous authentication nodes
FaceTec reached 50 issued US patents with the August 2026 grant of a patent covering autonomous authentication nodes, with roughly 50 further applications pending.
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- US Patent 12,699,756 issued on August 4, 2026, naming chief executive Kevin Alan Tussy as inventor.
- The patent covers blocking external server access to prevent manipulation of authentication results.
- A PTAB decision in June 2026 upheld four of the company's 3D liveness patents.
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Liveness detection has become one of the more heavily litigated areas in biometrics, and portfolio depth increasingly shapes which vendors can be integrated without licensing exposure. Buyers evaluating face verification should treat patent position as a procurement risk factor alongside accuracy.