ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,644, issued on March 4, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).
"Collation system, client terminal, server apparatus, collation method, and program" was invented by Toshiyuki Isshiki (Tokyo), Hiroto Tamiya (Tokyo), Masahiro Nara (Tokyo) and Toshihiko Okamura (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A collation system 10 includes divide registered information to first information and second information, and to provide the second information to a server apparatus 200, perform a first step for similarity calculation between the registered information and collation information inputted for collation with the registered information, based on the ...