US Patent Issued to NEC on Sept. 8 for "Biometric imaging device, biometric imaging method and program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,788, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Biometric imaging device, biometric imaging method and program" was invented by Teruyuki Higuchi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A biometric imaging device is provided with: placement unit that supports a biological object, imaging unit that takes images of the biological object, and determining unit that determines whether or not the biological object is placed on the placement unit, based on whether or not a feature of the biological object has changed at a place where the placement unit and the biological object are in contact, in the image(s)."

The patent was file...