ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,427, issued on July 8, was assigned to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method and system for user-centered visitor access management" was invented by Seok-Hyun Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Young-Seob Cho (Daejeon, South Korea), Soo-Hyung Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Geon-Woo Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Young-Sam Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Jong-Hyouk Noh (Daejeon, South Korea), Kwan-Tae Cho (Daejeon, South Korea), Sang-Rae Cho (Chungcheongbuk-do, South Korea), Jin-Man Cho (Daejeon, South Korea) and Seung-Hun Jin (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a meth...