ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,309, issued on April 7.

"Artificial intelligence assisted pet door with pet recognition and object detection" was invented by Caresse L. Biggs (Pompano Beach, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for a Pet Door system with Artificial Intelligence Image recognition and access-controlled pet door. The methods, systems, and apparatus include actions of obtaining content from one or more cameras, determining from the content that an authorized animal and one or more objects is present, analyzing the one or more objects for access authorizati...