ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,241, issued on March 17, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Server-based biometric authentication system for partner businesses, server device, authentication terminal, control method of server device, and storage medium" was invented by Taichi Okumura (Tokyo), Noriyuki Hiramoto (Tokyo) and Honami Yuki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A server device according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes: at least one memory storing a set of instructions; and at least one processor configured to execute the set of instructions to: acquire biometric information of each of a plurality of employees working in a first company a...