ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,297, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Control apparatus, data registration system, and control program" was invented by Tatsuro Ishida (Musashino, Japan), Atsushi Nakadaira (Musashino, Japan), Shigeru Fujimura (Musashino, Japan), Shigenori Ohashi (Musashino, Japan) and Hiroki Watanabe (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data registration system of the present embodiment includes a control device 20 and a cooperating device 30. The control device 20 includes a communication unit 21 that receives a data registration request to which an electronic signature of a user is added, a verification unit 22 t...