US Patent Issued to NEC on Feb. 17 for "System, server apparatus, authentication method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,818, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"System, server apparatus, authentication method, and storage medium" was invented by Noriyuki Hiramoto (Tokyo), Taichi Okumura (Tokyo) and Tatsuki Akutsu (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a server apparatus and at least one or more authentication terminals. The server apparatus stores an ID of each of a plurality of users and biometric information in association with each other. The at least one or more authentication terminals maintain an ID list that stores IDs of at least one or more persons staying in a predetermined area. The at least one or more a...