US Patent Issued to GATESENSE on Sept. 23 for "Intelligent lock and latch control system" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,039, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to GATESENSE LLC (Mesa, Ariz.).

"Intelligent lock and latch control system" was invented by Scott Clifford (Mesa, Ariz.), Kyle Clifford (Mesa, Ariz.), Grayson Allen (Mesa, Ariz.), Kevin Hale (Mesa, Ariz.) and Curtis MacKay (Mesa, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ingress control system utilizes magnetic detection to determine whether the ingress control system is either allowing or disallowing ingress into a controlled area. The ingress control system includes a latch pin that is movably disposed within a latch assembly in the presence of a magnetic field. The magnetic field is created by ...