ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,493, issued on April 14, was assigned to PP CORPORATE AG (Pfaffikon, Switzerland).

"Computer-implemented method and computer program product for the access control of a terminal" was invented by Peter Waneck (Oberaegeri, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a computer-implemented method and to a computer program product for the access control of a terminal, private data and other data being stored on the terminal and access to the private data being able to be limited or unlimited, comprising the following steps in the case of unlimited access: capturing an image signal by means of a camera of the term...