ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,742, issued on June 3, was assigned to Alarm.com Inc. (Tysons, Va.).
"Access control system" was invented by Stephen Scott Trundle (Falls Church, Va.), Daniel Todd Kerzner (McLean, Va.), James Jay Glickstein (Arlington, Va.), Benjamin Asher Berg (Washington), Allison Beach (Leesburg, Va.) and Donald Gerard Madden (Columbia, Md.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for controlling access to a premises. One of the methods includes detecting a person within a threshold distance of a door; determining that there is a threshold likelihood that the per...