ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,832, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to DORMAKABA SCHWEIZ AG (Wetzikon, Austria).

"Door operating system" was invented by Marc Faresse (Chatonnaye, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A door operating system including a control unit and at least one sensor device, the system configured to operate a door from a closed state into an opened state. The sensor device is configured to observe an observation area and provide image data to the control unit, which is configured to receive and process the observation image data. Processing the data includes detecting an individual inside the observation area, extracting pose information...