US Patent Issued to NEC on Jan. 27 for "File viewing system, file viewing method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,312, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"File viewing system, file viewing method, and storage medium" was invented by Koichiro Doi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a file viewing system including: a comparison unit that compares biometric information of a comparison target person with biometric information of a person associated with an electronic file; and a viewing prevention unit that performs a process for preventing viewing of the electronic file based on a result of a comparison by the comparison unit."

The patent was filed on May 21, 2024, under Application No. 18/669,820.

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