US Patent Issued to Honeywell International on Dec. 30 for "Building access using a mobile device" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,966, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Building access using a mobile device" was invented by Michael Coniff (Louisville, Ky.), Krishna Murthy (Bangalore, India), Sreedhar Raman (Bangalore, India) and Karthik Harpanhalli (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for unlocking an access point of a facility with a mobile device. Permissions and locations of access points of the facility that are accessible to a user of a particular mobile device may be downloaded and a location of the particular mobile device determined. The mobile device may identify one or m...