ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,982, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Remote access control" was invented by Ryan Christopher Rapp (Seattle) and Ricardo Jose Lopez (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system that allows a user to access a secured area by confirming location of the user near the secured area and receipt of an access word by the system. A user in possession of a mobile device may be detected at the entrance to a secured location. The system can select a question asking for a passcode corresponding to certain access to the secured location. The question can be spoken to a user through a loudspeaker at the se...