US Patent Issued to Rakuten Group on Sept. 2 for "Authentication system, authentication method and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,683, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Rakuten Group Inc. (Tokyo).

"Authentication system, authentication method and program" was invented by Sachiko Fukushima (Tokyo) and Yeongnam Chae (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An authentication system, comprising at least one processor configured to: execute first authentication for a first user when the first user is present at a first place or arrives at a first place; predict a predicted period in which a second user who has a possibility of being authenticated as the first user by the first authentication is not expected to be present at the first place or arrive at the first place...