US Patent Issued to FACEFIRST on March 25 for "Access manager" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,959, issued on March 25, was assigned to FACEFIRST INC (Austin, Texas).

"Access manager" was invented by Joseph Ethan Rosenkrantz (Calabasas, Calif.) and Gifford Hesketh (Newbury Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An access manager determines whether access will be granted to a guarded species or space utilizing a controller including a digital processor with a memory for storing an ID library and a transducer block coupled with the processor for accessing a plurality of different ID types and an access control block coupled with the processor for granting or denying access."

The patent was filed on March 19, 2024, under A...