ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,947, issued on July 8, was assigned to DORMAKABA SCHWEIZ AG (Rumlang, Switzerland).

"Method, system and computer program product for supervising a control area" was invented by Marc Faresse (Chatonnaye, Switzerland) and Paul Studerus (Oberweningen, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for supervising a control area comprising: a first tracking process using UWB detection device(s) and a second tracking process using secondary detection device(s). The first tracking process comprises: executing ultra-wideband transmissions with UWB-enabled authentication device(s); determining successive positions of the UWB-enabled auth...