ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,713, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).
"Authentication system and authentication method" was invented by Satoru Tanahashi (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An authentication system includes at least one illumination irradiating a person to be authenticated with invisible light, a first imaging device imaging the person to be authenticated irradiated with the invisible light, and an authentication device communicating with the first imaging device and executes authentication of the person to be authenticated based on a first invisible light image captured ...