US Patent Issued to playground on March 18 for "Ticket issuing system, and ticket checking apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,720, issued on March 18, was assigned to playground Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Ticket issuing system, and ticket checking apparatus" was invented by Keiji Ito (Shibuya-ku, Japan) and Hiroki Miyanishi (Shibuya-ku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ticket issuing system has a processor and a storage with instructions thereon. The storage stores a feature value table that associates and stores feature value data including feature information pertaining to biometric information and a feature ID for identifying the feature value data. The instructions upon execution by the processor, cause the processor to: acquire user feature information ...