ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,076, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo) and NEC Platforms Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Authentication device, authentication method, and recording medium using otoacoustic authenication" was invented by Ryoji Miyahara (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An authentication management device acquires first position information indicating a change in the position of a user's earphone equipped with a first authentication means based on otoacoustic authentication; on the basis of the acquired first position information, estimates motion of the user wearing the earphone by generating motion information indicating the...