US Patent Issued to TYCO FIRE & SECURITY on Nov. 18 for "Methods and systems for detecting a tailgating event at an access point controlled by an access control system" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,770, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to TYCO FIRE & SECURITY GMBH (Neuhausen am Rhenfall, Switzerland).

"Methods and systems for detecting a tailgating event at an access point controlled by an access control system" was invented by Allen Houston (Lisburn, Great Britain), Peter Lawrence (Lisburn, Great Britain) and Terence Neill (Lisburn, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods for controlling access to a restricted area by an access control device includes obtaining a first image using a first sensor mounted at a first location. A second image is obtained using a second sensor mounted at a location differe...