ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,238, issued on March 17, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Authentication processing apparatus, authentication processing method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Toru Aoyagi (Tokyo) and Yoshiko Imanishi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus (100) includes: an acquisition unit (102) that acquires first personal identifiable information and terminal identifiable information from a storage medium of a portable type that stores the first personal identifiable information and the terminal identifiable information; an authentication unit (104) that authenticates se...