US Patent Issued to HITACHI on Nov. 4 for "System and method for preventing fraudulent device access using multi-area biometric and vital sign authentication" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,007, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to HITACHI LTD. (Tokyo).

"System and method for preventing fraudulent device access using multi-area biometric and vital sign authentication" was invented by Keiichiro Nakazaki (Tokyo), Naoto Miura (Tokyo), Yusuke Matsuda (Tokyo) and Akio Nagasaka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Authentication is performed by confirming that the true operator presents his/her own biometric authentication information at a common portable information terminal. The biometric authentication system has an image capture unit that acquires first and second image data of different biometric areas of an operator during...