US Patent Issued to Home Depot Product Authority on May 12 for "Systems and methods for access control" (Texas, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,704, issued on May 12, was assigned to Home Depot Product Authority LLC (Atlanta).

"Systems and methods for access control" was invented by Steven Einbender (Atlanta) and Alfred Hartmann (Round Rock, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for access control includes detecting, by a security agent of a computing device, a request by a user of the computing device for access to a controlled asset. The method also includes authenticating, by the security agent, the user in response to the request. The method includes granting, by the security agent, access to the controlled asset based on determining that an i...