US Patent Issued to iLOQ on Sept. 8 for "Locking system of one or more buildings" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,451, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to iLOQ Oy (Oulu, Finland).

"Locking system of one or more buildings" was invented by Tomi Karjalainen (Oulu, Finland) and Juha Lepisto (Oulu, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document discloses a solution for configuring access rights in a locking system comprising a plurality of electromechanical locks and a plurality of keys to users of the system. Each key stores encrypted data defining an opening right to a particular subset of the plurality of electromechanical lock, the subset of locks assigned to the respective user. The system further comprises a service key storing, as a defau...