ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,978, issued on March 31, was assigned to Fujitsu Ltd. (Kawasaki, Japan).

"Determination method for determining identity of person depending on movement of positions in specified image region, non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, and information processing apparatus" was invented by Soichi Hama (Atsugi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A determination method for a computer to execute a process includes acquiring a captured image that is captured by a camera and includes an image area of a person; specifying an image area other than the image area of the person from the acquired captured image; and determining whether ...