ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,994, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and non-transitory recording medium" was invented by Hiroaki Toyama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes: an acquisition unit that acquires a pattern image obtained by imaging ridges of a living body; an estimation unit that sets a sampling point in the pattern image and estimates ridge spacing of the sampling point; and a normalization unit that normalizes a size of the pattern image on the basis of an estimation result by the estimation unit."

The patent was filed ...