ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,690, issued on March 25, was assigned to Geokey Inc. (Fremont, Neb.).

"System and method for location-based access control" was invented by Kurtis A. Charling (Fremont, Neb.), Derick Frauendorfer (Omaha, Neb.) and Brandon Peterson (Lincoln, Neb.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The system includes an electronically controllable access point device and a server. The server includes one or more processors, which are communicatively coupled to the access point device and a portable device. The one or more processors are configured to determine whether a user of the portable device is authorized to access the access point device based on ...