US Patent Issued to AT&T Intellectual Property I on Feb. 10 for "Localized access control for private networks" (California, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,521, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Localized access control for private networks" was invented by Yaron Kanza (Fair Lawn, N.J.) and Raghvendra Savoor (Walnut Creek, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one example, the present disclosure describes a device, computer-readable medium, and method for managing access control in private networks like home or corporate networks based on a current location such as a defined area, e.g., a room, in which a network-connected device is located. For instance, in one example, a method performed by a processing system including at least one proc...