Overview
- TrinamiX filed a complaint on Tuesday accusing Apple of infringing seven U.S. patents that it says are used in newer Face ID implementations.
- The patents fall into two families covering optical skin detection and material-property detection, and the complaint lists each U.S. patent number for the seven asserted patents.
- TrinamiX says the technology works by projecting a light pattern onto a face, analyzing how light reflects back, and combining that data with 3D depth sensing to tell real skin apart from photos, masks, or other spoofs.
- The lawsuit names a wide set of recent Apple devices as accused products, including iPhone 15/16/17 series models, an iPhone Air, and several 11- and 12.9-inch iPad Pro generations with M4/M5 chips.
- Filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas and assigned to Judge David Counts, trinamiX asks for a jury trial, an injunction to stop making or selling the accused devices, damages, and attorneys’ fees; the case is at an early procedural stage and no ruling has been made.