US Patent Issued to KONE on Aug. 26 for "Access control system and a method for controlling operation of an access control system" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,497, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to KONE Corp. (Helsinki).

"Access control system and a method for controlling operation of an access control system" was invented by Jussi Laurila (Helsinki) and Visa Rauta (Helsinki).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An access control system includes: at least one gate device and a control unit. The control unit is configured to: control the at least one gate device to operate in a first operation mode, in which the gate device is arranged to allow access for the users via the gate device only from a first access direction, detect that a traffic flow of the users meets a predefined capacity limit, an...