US Patent Issued to NEC on May 20 for "Gate apparatus, control method of gate apparatus, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,730, issued on May 20, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Gate apparatus, control method of gate apparatus, and storage medium" was invented by Fumi Irie (Tokyo) and Yoshitaka Yoshimura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gate apparatus includes an upper light that emits light from above a user, a lower light that emits light from below the user, a light control unit, and an acquisition unit. The acquisition unit acquires biological information about the user. The light control unit changes the luminance of the light emitted from the upper light and the luminance of the light emitted from the lower light when the biological info...