ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,256, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Essence Security International (E.S.1.) Ltd. (Herzlia Pituach, Israel).
"Padlock" was invented by Ohad Amir (Herzlia, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A padlock is provided with a transceiver to enable authorisation of an unlocking action by an authority. To control power consumption, a motion detector is used to activate the device from a dormant, low power consumption state."
The patent was filed on Dec. 15, 2021, under Application No. 18/259,945.
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