US Patent Issued to NEC on May 5 for "Authentication apparatus, system, method, and program for multi-stage authentication" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,698, issued on May 5, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Authentication apparatus, system, method, and program for multi-stage authentication" was invented by Hiroya Okada (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Authentication apparatus includes: communication part capable of communicating with server apparatus that stores common authentication information and first distributed authentication information in association with each other via network; read part capable of reading information from user storage medium that stores common authentication information and second distributed authentication information; input part; and control part,...