US Patent Issued to BlackBerry on Sept. 9 for "Method and system for multi-party unlock in an inventory transaction" (Canadian, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,805, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to BlackBerry Ltd. (Waterloo, Canada).

"Method and system for multi-party unlock in an inventory transaction" was invented by James Randolph Winter Lepp (Ottawa), Michael Peter Montemurro (Toronto) and Stephen McCann (Southampton, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for actuating a locking mechanism on a container, the method including receiving, at a computing device associated with the container, a policy for actuating the locking mechanism; determining, at the computing device, that conditions within the policy have been met; and actuating the locking mechanism."

The patent ...