US Patent Issued to Schlage Lock on April 21 for "UWB-based modes of entry" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,990, issued on April 21, was assigned to Schlage Lock Co. LLC (Carmel, Ind.).

"UWB-based modes of entry" was invented by Ryan C. Kincaid (Indianapolis), David Brown (Greenwood, Ind.), Joseph Land (Danville, Ind.) and Justin McKee (Carmel, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method according to an embodiment includes discovering, by a mobile device, an access control device via Bluetooth communication, authenticating, by the access control device, a credential of the mobile device over a Bluetooth communication connection established between the mobile device and the access control device, receiving, with a UWB subsystem of the acc...