US Patent Issued to NEC on July 14 for "Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,293, issued on July 14, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and storage medium" was invented by Noriyuki Hiramoto (Tokyo) and Kazuyoshi Takahashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus in the present invention includes: an acquisition unit that acquires, from a captured image obtained by capturing a passenger who is boarding on an airplane and has not yet passed through a boarding gate corresponding to the airplane, biometric information of the passenger; a specifying unit that specifies boarding reservation information regarding the b...