US Patent Issued to Juniper Networks on Feb. 3 for "Location based access control" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,785, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Juniper Networks Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Location based access control" was invented by Vladimir Vladimirovich Kozin (Livermore, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The techniques describe a network management system (NMS) configured to obtain, from a first computing device supporting ultra-wide band (UWB) protocol, a request to access a resource. The NMS may initiate an UWB secure ranging session between the first computing device and a second computing device to determine a location of the first computing device, the second computing device supporting the UWB protocol. The NMS may obtain, ...