ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,526, issued on July 29, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Authentication device, authentication method, and information processing device" was invented by Kiyoshi Yoshikawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology relates to an authentication device, an authentication method, a program, and an information processing device capable of performing user authentication using biometric information without storing the biometric information.The authentication device performs user authentication by comparing answer information that is generated by converting authentication information generated by converting basic...