US Patent Issued to KONICA MINOLTA on March 25 for "Authentication system and method for controlling authentication system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,944, issued on March 25, was assigned to KONICA MINOLTA INC. (Tokyo).

"Authentication system and method for controlling authentication system" was invented by Masaki Nakata (Toyohashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An authentication system includes: an information processing apparatus including a first processor; and an authentication server connected to the information processing apparatus through a network and including a second processor. The first processor acquires user registration information stored in a first memory based on an instruction operation of the user, generates an authentication request including data encry...