ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,235, issued on May 13, was assigned to Schlage Lock Co. LLC (Carmel, Ind.).
"Interoperability of RF antenna and capacitive touch keypad" was invented by David I. Newby (Plainfield, Ind.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method according to one embodiment includes placing a microcontroller of an access control device in a sleep state, monitoring a radio frequency (RF) field using a near field communication (NFC) controller and an NFC antenna of the access control device, waking the microcontroller from the sleep state in response to detecting that an RF field value of the RF field has surpassed a predefined threshold, masking capacitiv...