ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,816, issued on May 20, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Information processing device, information processing method, and program" was invented by Tomoyuki Kagaya (Kanagawa, Japan), Yuusuke Hara (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yosuke Nozue (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing device is equipped with: an authentication circuit that authenticates a person on the basis of a facial image of the person in captured image data; and a control circuit that controls the order of re-authentication of a plurality of people for which authentication failed, on the basis...