ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,329, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to iLOQ Oy (Oulu, Finland).
"Method and means for multi access mode lock system" was invented by Vaino Tikkanen (Kontio, Finland), Tomi Karjalainen (Espoo, Finland), Mika Piirainen (Oulu, Finland) and Jani Jarvinen (Oulu, Finland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to locks. More particularly, aspects of the invention relate to a lock that can be used to lock a door, and which features multiple modes to access the lock in order to open or close the lock. The disclosed lock combines different power sources with different access technologies resulting in a lock that will remain func...