US Patent Issued to THE CHAMBERLAIN GROUP on Oct. 20 for "Access control apparatus" (Illinois Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,445, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to THE CHAMBERLAIN GROUP LLC (Oak Brook, Ill.).

"Access control apparatus" was invented by James J. Fitzgibbon (Batavia, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lockset including a housing configured to be mounted at a secured entrance; a radio module supported by the housing, the radio module generating: an antenna pattern for communicating with a user device; and a squelch signal that prevents the radio module from receiving a credential signal from the user device when the user device is at one or more locations within the antenna pattern; and a processor in communication with the radio module, w...