ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,922, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"System for cancelable biometric feature data generation" was invented by Toshiyuki Isshiki (Tokyo) and Hiroto Tamiya (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a registration information generation apparatus for generating registration information based on registration-side input information including one or both of elements corresponding to a first set and elements corresponding to a second set, the registration information generation apparatus being configured to generate intermediate information by performing distribution processing for performing secret-sharing f...