US Patent Issued to Canon on Aug. 18 for "Authentication system and method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,217, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Authentication system and method" was invented by Hiroshi Saito (Kanagawa, Japan), Yuichiro Miyauchi (Kanagawa, Japan), Takahisa Ono (Kanagawa, Japan), Takeshi Kondoh (Tokyo), Masaru Sugita (Tokyo), Masanori Seki (Kanagawa, Japan) and Ryuichi Otsu (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An authentication system using an information encoding article that includes an information code, the authentication system includes a detection unit capable of reading the information code, an information acquisition unit configured to acquire first information regarding a concentration distr...