ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,885, issued on April 14, was assigned to Konica Minolta Inc. (Tokyo).

"Method, recording medium, and server for user authentication by computer" was invented by Hikaru Muto (Itami, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method executed by a hardware processor of a computer to manage use of a service at a terminal device, includes: receiving, from the terminal device via a communication network, identification information and authentication information that are input by a user to the terminal device to log in to the service; and in a case that a login to the service is not permitted based on the identification information and the aut...