ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,825, issued on May 20, was assigned to OMRON Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Biometric determination device and biometric determination method" was invented by Kazuya Urabe (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A biometric determination device includes a detection unit configured to detect a face from an image captured; an acquisition unit configured to acquire information on the temperature of a face region, which is a region in which a face is detected by the detection unit, and the temperature of an extra-facial region, which is a region around the face region; and a determination unit configured to determine on the basis of informa...