ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,689, issued on March 25, was assigned to Double R Ventures LLC (Alexandria, Va.).
"System and method for an electronic lock with an external power source" was invented by Rosalind Resnick (Alexandria, Va.) and Ciro De Martino (Florence, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for an electronic lock which is powered wirelessly from mobile power supplies, including smartphones or other mobile computing devices. A system can include: a processor; a deadbolt or a latch; an electromagnetic device physically connected to the deadbolt or latch, the electromagnetic device electrically connected to the processor; and a power...