ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,296, issued on March 3, was assigned to VISUAL DATA PTY LTD (Sydney).

"Electronic access control system" was invented by Lloyd Milewski (Sydney).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic access control system is configured for check-in less access control wherein a code generator generates a booking specific optical computer readable media which is optically read by electronic door lock apparatus. Simultaneously, the electronic door lock apparatus captures facial image data for subsequent keyless entry. Access control parameters are encoded within the optical computer readable media and decoded directly therefrom by the electronic ...