US Patent Issued to MAXELL on March 25 for "User authentication system and portable terminal" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,839, issued on March 25, was assigned to MAXELL LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"User authentication system and portable terminal" was invented by Yasunobu Hashimoto (Kyoto, Japan), Osamu Kawamae (Kyoto, Japan), Kazuhiko Yoshizawa (Kyoto, Japan), Nobuo Masuoka (Kyoto, Japan) and Hiroshi Shimizu (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user authentication system includes a main body device and an authentication device. The main body device has an authentication code transmission requesting unit, a verification unit, and an unlocking unit. The authentication code transmission requesting unit generates an authentication code transmission re...