ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,845, issued on June 23, was assigned to Conduent Business Services LLC (Florham Park, N.J.).

"Hands-free gate access control system and method of use" was invented by Pascal Roux (Chabeuil, France), Thibaut Lemouel (Soyons, France) and Melissa Milheiro Peuble (Charly-sur-Marne, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system provide for a hands-free access mechanism. The method includes locating a mobile device using a first radio access technology. The method further includes measuring a signal strength using the first technology and determining that the signal strength meets a predetermined signal strength threshold in or...