ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,423, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Guidance acquisition device for ascertaining cause of authentication error and providing guidance, guidance acquisition method, and storage medium" was invented by Koui Norimatsu (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Face image data is acquired and a face image is captured, and a difference between a face image indicated by the face image data and the face image that is captured or a candidate of the difference is detected on the basis of at least one of the face image indicated by the face image data that is acquired, and the face image that is captured. Guidance is acquir...