ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,882, issued on June 17, was assigned to Nice North America LLC (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Multiple-factor recognition and validation for security systems" was invented by Krishna Khadloya (San Jose, Calif.) and Manuel Gonzalez (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A security system can conditionally grant or deny access to a protected area using an artificial intelligence system to analyze images. In an example, an access control method can include receiving candidate information about a face and gesture from a first individual and receiving other image information from or about a second individual. The candidate information can...