ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,441, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to HITACHI LTD. (Tokyo).

"Biometric authentication system and authentication method using a feature pair" was invented by Naoto Miura (Tokyo), Keiichiro Nakazaki (Tokyo), Yusuke Matsuda (Tokyo), Yo Nonomura (Tokyo) and Akio Nagasaka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "High-accuracy multimodal biometric authentication of a plurality of body organisms is achieved while suppressing postural fluctuation when the plurality of body organisms are captured. An authentication system stores feature quantities for body organisms in association with users and performs biometric authentication on the basis o...