US Patent Issued to BITKEY on Sept. 2 for "Utilization management device, utilization management method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,096, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to BITKEY INC. (Tokyo).

"Utilization management device, utilization management method, and program" was invented by Hiroshi Yamamoto (Tokyo) and Yuki Ejiri (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the present invention is to perform offline management of use of usage target object by a user having a ticket, while reducing risk on security. A use permit that includes transaction information specifying usage conditions for the user to use the usage target object, is added as a two-dimensional code printed on a ticket. A utilization management device takes an image of the two-dimensional co...