ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,648,701, issued on June 9, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, living body detection system, living body detection method, and recording media" was invented by Tomoyuki Kawabe (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The apparatus according to this disclosure includes object temperature change measuring means for measuring a temperature change of a surface temperature of an object, and living body determination means for determining whether or not the object is a living body based on the temperature change."

The patent was filed on Sept. 30, 2020, under Application No. 18/022,859.

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