ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,890, issued on July 8, was assigned to HITACHI LTD. (Tokyo).
"Authentication apparatus and authentication method" was invented by Yosuke Kaga (Tokyo), Kenta Takahashi (Tokyo), Masakazu Fujio (Tokyo), Wataru Nakamura (Tokyo) and Yoshiko Yasumura (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An authentication apparatus holds: a combination of a concealment template generated from a secret key and biometric information through use of biometric cryptography and encrypted identity verification information obtained by encrypting identity verification information through use of the secret key; and biometric information on a user, and is configured t...