US Patent Issued to Dormakaba Schweiz on April 7 for "Method and devices for configuring electronic locks" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,310, issued on April 7, was assigned to Dormakaba Schweiz AG (Rumlang, Switzerland).

"Method and devices for configuring electronic locks" was invented by Anthony Fitze (Pfaffikon, Switzerland) and Paul Studerus (Oberweningen, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For configuring access rights of electronic locks, a mobile communication device obtains an access right identifier. Configuration data comprising the access right identifier is transferred from the mobile communication device (3) to a first electronic lock, via a close range communication interface, thereby configuring the first electronic lock to grant an access righ...