US Patent Issued to THE CHAMBERLAIN GROUP on March 17 for "Vehicle-based control of a movable barrier operator" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,825, issued on March 17, was assigned to THE CHAMBERLAIN GROUP LLC (Oak Brook, Ill.).

"Vehicle-based control of a movable barrier operator" was invented by Waheed Ahmed (Westmont, Ill.), Wei Lyn Lee (Arlington Heights, Ill.), Maged Riad (Roselle, Ill.), Sudarshan Ravindran (South Elgin, Ill.), Yang Yang (Kildeer, Ill.) and Adelaide Zhang (Northbrook, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for controlling operation of a garage door operator of a garage. The method includes tracking a travel distance of a vehicle from a parked location within a geo-fenced area that includes the garage toward a second location, determ...