ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,711, issued on July 14, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Intelligent access control system" was invented by Jeremy R. Fox (Georgetown, Texas), Suman Patra (Kolkata, India), Logan Bailey (Atlanta) and Zachary A. Silverstein (Georgetown, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, by an intelligent access control system, of implementing access control to a controlled area having a plurality access areas divided by at least one access point includes the following operations. A security token is generated. The security token is transmitted to a client module executing on a client device associated...