US Patent Issued to ASSA ABLOY on Sept. 29 for "Physical access control system with secure relay" (Austrian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,362, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to ASSA ABLOY AB (Stockholm).

"Physical access control system with secure relay" was invented by Matvey Mukha (Graz, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating an access control system comprises receiving, by a mobile device, an identification of a physical access portal; verifying access credential information stored in the mobile device using a verification application of the mobile device; establishing a secure communication channel with a secure relay device associated with the physical access portal; sending an encrypted access token stored in the mobile device to the secu...