US Patent Issued to ASSA ABLOY on July 21 for "Providing a credential for use with an electronic lock" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,741, issued on July 21, was assigned to ASSA ABLOY AB (Stockholm).

"Providing a credential for use with an electronic lock" was invented by David Ahlard (Skelleftea, Sweden), Mudit Sethi (Vallingby, Sweden), Magnus Durr (Huddinge, Sweden), Linnea Cronfalk (Stockholm), David Bundgaard (Gustavsberg, Sweden) and Adrian Papari (Skarholmen, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is provided a method for providing a credential for use with an electronic lock (7) to access to restricted physical space (16). The method comprises: receiving (40) a credential that unlocks the electronic lock (7); generating (42) a credential identifier assoc...