ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,429, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Janus International Group LLC (Temple, Ga.).

"Access control device with gateway operability" was invented by William Debord (Woodstock, Ga.), David P. Gengler (Draper, Utah) and Nathan Perry (Eagle Mountain, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems, and methods for control access can implement a self-storage access control device which can operate to control access to one or more passages in a self-storage facility and can operate for gateway control for transmitting and/or receiving data over a communication network via a network interface. Operations can be configured to selectiv...