ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,966, issued on April 7, was assigned to MFTB Holdco Inc. (Seattle).
"Automated property access control involving sequential call prompt interactions using multiple computing devices" was invented by Anurag Bhatnagar (Dublin, Calif.), Hiba EL Hassan (Belvedere, Calif.) and Matthew Tobin (Oakland, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for using computing devices to perform automated operations involving interactions between multiple computing devices and systems as part of automatically scheduling an in-person access to a physical property involving multiple unaffiliated users traveling from disparate locations...