ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,620, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Authentication control apparatus, authentication system, authentication control method, and storage medium" was invented by Tatsuki Akutsu (Tokyo) and Akiko Ide (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An authentication control apparatus according to the present disclosure includes: image acquisition means for acquiring an image including a person to be authenticated captured by a camera that photographs the person to be authenticated; authentication control means for causing an authentication apparatus that executes face authentication to execute face authentication of the perso...