US Patent Issued to NEC on Oct. 7 for "Credit-based body scan apparatus, method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,544, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Credit-based body scan apparatus, method, and storage medium" was invented by Nobuaki Kawase (Tokyo) and Kunio Fudemoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus according to the present invention includes: a first acquisition unit that acquires biometric information of a person; a second acquisition unit that acquires identification information of the baggage possessed by the person; and a creating unit that creates link information for associating the biometric information with the identification information."

The patent was filed on Nov. 14,...