US Patent Issued to ASSA ABLOY on April 22 for "Upper layer device architecture for ultra-wide band enabled device" (Austrian, Czech, Swedish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,143, issued on April 22, was assigned to ASSA ABLOY AB (Stockholm).

"Upper layer device architecture for ultra-wide band enabled device" was invented by Hans-Juergen Pirch (Gratwein Strassengel, Austria), Jan Steffl (Senomaty, Czech Republic), Sylvain Jacques Prevost (Austin, Texas) and Fredrik Carl Stefan Einberg (Huddinge, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a seamless physical access control system comprises transferring communication session information using an out-of-band (OOB) communication channel of a smart ultra-wide band (UWB) capable device; establishing a secure OOB communication channel between th...