ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,361, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to SMART ACCESS SOLUTIONS GMBH (Munich).

"Electronic lock device, in particular a key safe, and method for operating the electric lock device" was invented by Tobias Stotter (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an electric locking device (10) comprising. at least one sensor device for detecting at least one movement of the locking device (10) and for generating sensor signals and/or sensor data in dependence on the detected movement, at least one power source (22) other than a fixed power supply for operating at least the actuator (12), the near-field data tran...