US Patent Issued to Honeywell International on May 19 for "Building access control using a mobile device" (Saudi Arabia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,185, issued on May 19, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Building access control using a mobile device" was invented by Mohammed Farooq Abdalfattah Saqr (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a door lock module for locking and unlocking a door and a mobile device running an access control application that is configured to receive access rights from a server and store the access rights in the mobile device. The access control application identifies a door ID of the door to the secure area and determines whether the access rights stored in the mobile device grant the user as...