ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,774, issued on July 15, was assigned to TYCO FIRE & SECURITY GMBH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).
"Dynamic capacity monitoring" was invented by Rachel D. M. Ellerman (Shorewood, Wis.), Vikas Sharma (New Delhi), Sourabh Taranath Joshi (Ambarnath, India) and Ketan Pandhare (Pune, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for providing access to a building for a user is shown. The method includes determining a capacity restraint for the building, the capacity restraint including a maximum number of occupants allowed within the building. The method includes receiving a request to reserve a space in the building from the user. ...