ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,146, issued on April 22, was assigned to 1Micro LLC (Waconia, Minn.).

"Methods and apparatus for accessing secured physical assets at a facility utilized for maintenance and management" was invented by Jon Kristian Terp (Islamorada, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A facility access system for facilitating on-site access to physical assets, comprising a physical structure having one or more actuated features each configured to provide selective access to one or more secured physical assets for retrieval by on-site personnel, including an optical unit configured to receive a unique code from the on-site personnel. A computing platfo...