ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,726, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to GENETEC INC. (Saint-Laurent, Canada).

"Methods and systems for access control" was invented by Jonathan Doyon (Saint-Laurent, Canada), Mathieu Chevalier (Saint-Laurent, Canada) and Mortimer Hubin (Saint-Laurent, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of requesting access through a door by a mobile computing device may involve: receiving a Uniform Resource Locator (URL); directing a web browser application of the mobile computing device to a webpage based on the received URL; receiving an access code from an access-control system, the access code associated with access rights of a user o...