US Patent Issued to DORMAKABA CANADA on March 11 for "Electronic lock system and associated method of operation" (Canadian, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,200, issued on March 11, was assigned to DORMAKABA CANADA INC. (Montreal).

"Electronic lock system and associated method of operation" was invented by Samuel Browne (Montreal) and Jean-Marc Simohand (Neoules, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented solution is provided to allow electronic locks to implement commands more complex than simply opening or closing, such as timeframe-dependent commands, without requiring an access to the Internet at the time of access. At a remote computer, such as a cloud server, computer-readable instructions initially provided in a sequence of plain text characters, are encrypted i...