US Patent Issued to ASSA ABLOY Access and Egress Hardware Group on March 17 for "Door lock with lower power state" (Washington, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,855, issued on March 17, was assigned to ASSA ABLOY Access and Egress Hardware Group Inc. (New Haven, Conn.).

"Door lock with lower power state" was invented by William Gardiner (Woodland, Wash.) and Joseph Sceviour (Hingham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for enabling a door lock coupled to a door in a building to operate in a lower-power state and achieve reduction of power usage, while still being able to timely receive high-priority messages through operation of an intermediary device. The door lock can establish an association with the intermediary device in a higher-power state and maintain the associ...