ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,688, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Orange (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France).

"Method and device for access control" was invented by Frederic Lorsignol (Chatillon, France) and Philippe Le Goff (Chatillon, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, a device and a system for controlling access to a service by a user. The method is implemented by an access device. The method includes the following steps on the device to verify the human status of a user: obtaining at least one three-dimensional virtual object and associated data, referred to as resolution data; controlling playback of the at least one virtual object for the user; o...