US Patent Issued to 1MICRO on July 14 for "Methods and apparatus for accessing secured physical assets at a facility utilized for maintenance and management" (Florida Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,712, issued on July 14, was assigned to 1MICRO LLC (Waconia, Minn.).

"Methods and apparatus for accessing secured physical assets at a facility utilized for maintenance and management" was invented by Jon Kristian Terp (Islamorada, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Asset access systems in accordance with various embodiments of the invention utilize a two-dimensional (2D) code that allows a user to gain physical access to and take possession of a key fob, where key fob is understood to represent any wireless device that interacts with a vehicle control system to access, manage, and operate the asset. Users of the system will present...