ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,756, issued on June 30, was assigned to SKIDATA GMBH (Salzburg, Austria).

"Access control device for persons and/or vehicles and method for controlling access for persons and/or vehicles" was invented by Marco Rihl (Salzburg, Austria) and Cornelius Kirchner (Salzburg, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention refers to an access control device (1) for a person and/or a vehicle, comprising a first blocking element (2) and a second blocking element (3), the first blocking element (2) and the second blocking element (3) being positioned adjacent to each other for defining a common access, an interface device configured to gen...