ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,271, issued on July 21, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Biometrics apparatus, biometrics method, and recording medium" was invented by Koichi Takahashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are: an extraction unit that extracts a target feature quantity that is a feature quantity of target data used to perform a recognition operation; a calculation unit that calculates an unsuitability score indicating a degree of similarity between the target feature quantity and an unsuitability feature quantity that is set on the basis of a feature quantity of each piece of a plurality of sample data that deteriorate an accuracy of th...