US Patent Issued to NEC on March 4 for "Authentication device, authentication system, and authentication method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,584, issued on March 4, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Authentication device, authentication system, and authentication method" was invented by Tomoki Inoue (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to improve the safety and reliability of services provided by a computer, this authentication device is equipped with a transmission unit and a determination unit. The transmission unit transmits a challenge to a terminal device where the challenge is presented to a user to be authenticated, the challenge being information serving as the basis on which the user inputs information to be used for authentication processing. At this...