ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,003, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Collation device, non-transitory computer readable medium storing program, and collation method" was invented by Yukari Motosugi (Kanagawa, Japan), Ken Sato (Kanagawa, Japan) and Minoru Oshima (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A collation device includes a processor configured to, by executing a program: (a) acquire a photographed image including a collation area provided on an object and a reference position area that serves as a reference for a position of the collation area; (b) detect the reference position area from the photograp...