ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,683, issued on July 28, was assigned to FaceIT Holdings LLC (Aubrey, Texas).

"Expedited sports and entertainment venue validated entry platform and method" was invented by Todd Martin (Aubrey, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method to validate people for entry into a sports or entertainment venue using in-motion facial authentication and walk-thru body scanning for prohibited objects so that venue entrants may enter a facility substantially without stopping. Entrants proceed through a chute (450), and after being facially authenticated and scanned for prohibited object shapes, a processor (402) displays whether a pe...