ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,917, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Authentication system and tracking system" was invented by Tatsuya Mizui (Kariya, Japan), Yuichi Yoshida (Tokyo) and Mitsuru Ambai (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An authentication system includes: a first imaging device that images an individual object in a first stage to generate a registration image; a second imaging device that images an individual object to be authenticated in the second stage to generate an authentication image; and a registration device configured to authenticate the individual object to be authenticated, by extracting a registration ...