ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,931, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to NEC Platforms Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Reception control apparatus, reception system, control method, and control program" was invented by Noboru Kaieda (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reception control apparatus (10) accommodates a plurality of terminal apparatuses (20) to be used by each of a plurality of users and a reception apparatus (30) receiving a visitor, and includes a scheduled visit database (11) that can be registered by associating authentication information of a scheduled visitor with the user, an acquisition unit (12) acquiring authentication information of a v...