US Patent Issued to CONNECTFREE on Feb. 11 for "Gate opening method and door unlocking method using portable terminal network address" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,223,786, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to CONNECTFREE Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Gate opening method and door unlocking method using portable terminal network address" was invented by Kristopher Andrew Tate (Kyoto, Japan) and Mitsuhiro Okamoto (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gate opening method includes: a step (S8) of transmitting a gate opening signal for making a request for opening of a gate, which is configured to restrict entry into a predetermined space, to the gate by using an IP address unique to a mobile terminal associated with a user; a step (S9) of determining whether or not to allow the user to enter the predet...