ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,729, issued on July 21, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and storage medium for registration of information to be used for collation processing" was invented by Shoji Tanaka (Kanagawa, Japan) and Hiroshi Sato (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus is provided and includes a first extraction unit configured to perform first extraction processing on an image of a registration target, the first extraction processing extracting first feature information indicating a feature of the registration target, a second extraction unit...