US Patent Issued to Tyco Fire & Security on April 15 for "Access control to secured locations using relaxed biometrics" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,823, issued on April 15, was assigned to Tyco Fire & Security GmbH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).

"Access control to secured locations using relaxed biometrics" was invented by Gregory A. Makowski (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Kshitij Judah (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Kris Duszak (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example implementations include a method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium for controlling access to a location, comprising receiving an access identifier and a biometric information sample from a user attempting to enter an access point. The implementations further include matching the access identifier to ...