ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,961, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Entry control device, entry control system, entry control method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium" was invented by Maya Saito (Tokyo) and Kouhei Okinaka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An entry control device according to the present disclosure includes: a first biometric authentication control unit that acquires first biometric information from a predetermined user who tries to enter a facility including a plurality of regions where entry is restricted in each of a plurality of locking systems, and controls first biometric authentication; an attribute info...