US Patent Issued to Honeywell International on May 5 for "Access control via a mobile device" (Australian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,664, issued on May 5, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Access control via a mobile device" was invented by Sanjay Roy (Plymouth, Minn.), Frank Lin (Oatlands, Australia), Bryan Jones (Muswellbrook, Australia), Datta Godbole (Plymouth, Minn.) and Himanshu Khurana (Plymouth, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, and methods for access control via a mobile device are described herein. One method includes receiving location information associated with a mobile device in a facility, determining that the mobile device is within a particular distance of an area of the facility based on the locat...