ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,966, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and storage medium" was invented by Nobuaki Kawase (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus according to the present invention includes: a matching unit that has a first mode to match biometric information on a user acquired at a first gate of a plurality of boarding gates with a first group of registered biometric information on an expected passenger related to the first gate and a second mode to match the biometric information with a second group of registered biometric inform...