ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,952, issued on May 6, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing device, system, method, and storage medium for updating registered facial image" was invented by Yoshiaki Okuyama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an information processing device that prevents fraudulent updating of registered facial images. The information processing device comprises a database and an updating unit. The database stores a first facial image of a user. In accordance with at least the similarity between the first facial image and a second facial image, the updating unit determines whether to update the first facial image ...