ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,434, issued on April 29, was assigned to Latch Systems Inc. (New York).
"Systems and methods for controlling access to physical space" was invented by Luke Andrew Schoenfelder (Willow Street, Pa.), Michael Brian Jones (Pittsburgh), Thomas Meyerhoffer (Montara, Calif.), Ali Akbar Hussain (Plymouth, Minn.), Ivan Almaral Sole (New York), Travis Holt (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and James Griszbacher (New York).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed systems and methods relate to a smart access control reader for an access control system. According to embodiments, a method can include installing the smart access control reader to the access control s...