US Patent Issued to Sony Interactive Entertainment on April 15 for "Information processing system, input device, user authentication method, server device, and biometric authentication device" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,203, issued on April 15, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"Information processing system, input device, user authentication method, server device, and biometric authentication device" was invented by Yoshihiko Suwa (Tokyo), Masayuki Ebata (Tokyo), Yasunori Yasuda (Tokyo), Yoshiyuki Imada (Tokyo), Hirotaka Ishikawa (Tokyo), Yu Sugita (San Mateo, Calif.) and Takashi Isa (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An input device for inputting a user operation includes a data-for-authentication holding unit that holds data for authentication regarding one or more registered users, a fingerprint sensor th...