ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,448, issued on June 10, was assigned to Tyco Fire & Security GmbH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).
"Security system with hand sanitization" was invented by Nikhil D. Mirkar (Vashi, India) and Manali V. Pednekar (Thane West, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An access control system includes an identification unit having an infrared (IR) transmitter, an IR detector that receives reflected IR radiation from one or more body parts of the user, one or more signal processing components to determine a temperature of the user, a hand sanitization unit that sanitizes hands of the user when the hands are placed in a palm placement ar...