US Patent Issued to NEC on March 25 for "Authentication terminal, entrance/exit management system, entrance/exit management method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,840, issued on March 25, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Authentication terminal, entrance/exit management system, entrance/exit management method, and program" was invented by Shin Norieda (Tokyo), Kenta Fukuoka (Tokyo), Masashi Yoneda (Tokyo), Shogo Akasaki (Tokyo) and Yoshinori Saida (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an authentication terminal for appropriately protecting the privacy of a visitor. The authentication terminal is provided with an acquisition unit, an authentication request unit, and an output unit. The acquisition unit acquires the biometric information of a user. The authentication request unit...