ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,230,118, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Carrier Corp. (Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.).

"Systems and methods for keybox status determination" was invented by Parameshwar Sripathy (Hyderabad, India), Ramesh Lingala (Hyderabad, India) and Lakshman Subramanian (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for keybox status determination are disclosed. In some embodiments, a system for determining a status of a keycontainer of a lockbox comprises one or more sensors configured to generate output signals related to the keycontainer. The system further comprises at least one processor operatively connected with the one or ...