ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,722, issued on July 22, was assigned to AXESS AG (Anif/Salzburg, Austria).
"Access control terminals" was invented by Christian Windhager (Elsbethen, Austria), Oliver Suter (Bad Duerrnberg, Germany), Daniel Wakounig (Maria Rain, Austria) and Josef Fischer (Hallein, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An access control terminal includes guidance members to establish an access lane having a signal- or blocking element and a multi-beam phased antenna array. An electronic gate controller is connected to the multi-beam phased antenna array to communicate via Bluetooth protocol with mobile Bluetooth communication devices. A proximity se...