US Patent Issued to Toshiba Tec on Sept. 23 for "Transaction processing system and transaction processing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,701, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Toshiba Tec K.K. (Tokyo).

"Transaction processing system and transaction processing method" was invented by Satoshi Yokote (Ome Tokyo, Japan) and Hirokazu Tani (Matsudo Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with an embodiment, a transaction processing system includes a user terminal, an authentication server, a payment server, and a receipt server. The receipt server manages receipt information regarding a transaction paid for by the payment server in association with a user's identifier acquired by the authentication server on the basis of biometric data input by the user...