US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Feb. 3 for "Identity authentication device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,581, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Identity authentication device" was invented by Yuma Ishino (Hachioji, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An identity authentication device presents an authentication sentence generated at a time of an authentication by a sentence generation unit to a user using an authentication speech presentation unit, together with an utterance method set by an utterance method designation unit, and performs authentication based on a voiceprint, wording, and an utterance method detected from speech data input to a speech input unit using a voiceprint authentication unit...