ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,197, issued on April 8, was assigned to ASSA ABLOY AB (Stockholm).

"Controlling access based on a machine-learning model" was invented by Divya Gupta (Gurugram, India), Siddharth Gaur (Gurugram, India), Jeevan Kaur (Dehradun, India), Aravindan Varadan (Bengaluru, India), Priya Jindal (Gurgaon, India) and Bhavay Satija (New Delhi).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is provided a method for controlling access to a physical space secured by an electronic lock. The method is performed in an access evaluator and comprises: obtaining one or more input parameters relating to a user requesting access to the restricted physical space; evaluatin...