ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,564, issued on June 23, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing device, face authentication promotion system, information processing method, non-transitory computer readable medium storing program" was invented by Risa Tagawa (Tokyo) and Noriyuki Hiramoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing device includes an acquisition unit, an authentication request unit, a generation unit, and a determination unit. The authentication request unit causes biometric authentication to be performed on biometric information about a user acquired by one or more installed terminals arranged in various places...