ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,440, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to OMRON Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Information processing device, permission determination method, and program" was invented by Chao Zhang (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes a requester that requests a user to perform an action in response to the user seeking permission, an obtainer that obtains user information about the user in response to the user being requested to perform the action, a determiner that determines whether to provide the permission to the user based on the user information, and a controller that performs control to repeatedly c...