ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,122, issued on April 29, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Operation appropriateness determination system, method for determining operation appropriateness, and non-transitory computer readable medium storing program for determining operation appropriateness" was invented by Hisashi Watanabe (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An operation appropriateness determination system includes an authentication apparatus that identifies an operator on a basis of a feature of the operator and that outputs information for identifying the operator, a biometric sensing apparatus that obta...