US Patent Issued to HID Global on March 18 for "Physical access control systems and methods" (American, South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,732, issued on March 18, was assigned to HID Global Corp. (Austin, Texas).

"Physical access control systems and methods" was invented by Sylvain Jacques Prevost (Austin, Texas), Kapil Sachdeva (Round Rock, Texas), Stephen Carney (Foxboro, Mass.), Wayne Pak (Seoul-Si, South Korea) and Jianbo Chen (Cedar Park, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A physical access control (PAC) system comprises an authentication device that includes physical layer circuitry and processing circuitry. The physical layer circuitry transmits and receives radio frequency electrical signals over a radio access network. The processing circuitry is operativel...