US Patent Issued to NEC on March 4 for "Authentication system, method, and computer-readable recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,579, issued on March 4, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Authentication system, method, and computer-readable recording medium" was invented by Junichi Inoue (Tokyo) and Takumi Otani (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an authentication system that improves user convenience. This authentication system includes at least one first terminal, a plurality of second terminals, and a server device. The first terminal is capable of providing services using a biometric authentication function or non-biometric authentication function. Each of the second terminals is capable of switching between a biometric authentication funct...