ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,271, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Electronic apparatus and control method" was invented by Kazuhiro Kosugi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic apparatus includes a memory which temporarily stores image data of an image captured by an imaging device, and a processor which processes image data stored in the memory to execute boot processing to boot a system from a standby state based on an authentication result by face authentication. The processor processes image data of an image captured by the imaging device and stored in the memory in the standby state to ...