ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,706, issued on July 22, was assigned to NEC Solution Innovators Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Master face image registration apparatus, registration method, program, and recording medium" was invented by Kazuhide Umeda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A candidate face image and attribute information of each imaging attribute item are acquired. For each imaging attribute item, attribute information is extracted from a database that stores attribute information that has a degree of participation in false authentication greater than a participation degree threshold, among attribute information of analyzed imaging attribute items of analyzed maste...