ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,393, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"System, gate device, control method for gate device, and storage medium" was invented by Hiroshi Osada (Tokyo), Masayoshi Yamaura (Tokyo), Osamu Sakaguchi (Tokyo) and Kazuya Kojoh (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gate device includes an authentication request unit, first authentication unit, second authentication unit, and gate control unit. The authentication request unit requests server-based first biometric authentication for a first user in an authentication area and registers successful authentication data. The first authentication unit performs second biometric ...