ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,204, issued on April 15, was assigned to GLORY LTD. (Himeji, Japan).

"Authentication system and authentication method" was invented by Sotaro Moriwaki (Himeji, Japan), Shigenobu Nishida (Himeji, Japan), Yuichi Fujita (Himeji, Japan), Ayumi Kokubun (Himeji, Japan) and Koji Tanaka (Himeji, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To enhance convenience in an authentication system using a plurality of types of authentication, a terminal device transmits authentication data including a face image and a voice of a user, the position of the terminal device, to the server device. The server device uses the received authentication data to perform...