ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,238, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Authentication control device, authentication system, authentication control method and non-transitory computer readable medium" was invented by Tatsuki Akutsu (Tokyo) and Akiko Ide (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An authentication control device according to the present disclosure is provided with an image acquisition means for acquiring an image including an authentication object person walking in the monitoring area photographed by a camera for photographing the monitoring area, an authentication control means for causing an authentication device for performing face...