US Patent Issued to NEC on Sept. 8 for "Authentication system, authentication method, and computer readable medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,870, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Authentication system, authentication method, and computer readable medium" was invented by Kunio Fudemoto (Tokyo), Nobuaki Kawase (Tokyo) and Takeshi Kojima (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An authentication system (1) is a system for authenticating a predetermined group. The authentication system (1) includes an authentication unit (11) and a condition setting unit (12). The authentication unit (11) performs biometric authentication of a person on the basis of a predetermined personal authentication criterion. The condition setting unit (12) sets a group authenticatio...