ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,100, issued on May 13, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).
"Identification device, identification system, identification method, and program recording medium using a walking waveform of a user" was invented by Chenhui Huang (Tokyo), Kenichiro Fukushi (Tokyo), Zhenwei Wang (Tokyo) and Fumiyuki Nihey (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an identification device for identifying an individual on the basis of gait irrespective of the type of footwear, the identification device comprising a detection unit that detects a walking event on the basis of a walking waveform of a user, a waveform processing unit that normalizes the wa...