ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,237, issued on July 1, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing system, information processing method and recording" was invented by Yuta Kudo (Tokyo) and Hiroshi Hashimoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing system (10) comprises: a storage means (110) for storing face information of a user and re-identification information used for re-identification of the user in association with each other; an acquiring means (120) for acquiring the face information and the re-identification information of a target user; a determining means (130) for performing determination whether or not the face inf...