ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,230,087, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS INC. (Chicago).

"Allowing access through a controlled-access point" was invented by Ewelina Czenomysa (Cracow, Poland), Mateusz Kifer (Konskie, Poland), Maciej Schmidt (Dabrowa Tarnowska, Poland), Grzegorz Kaplita (Rzeszow, Poland), Dariusz Putek (Trzebinia, Poland), Rafal Wesolowski-Kuta (Radziszow, Poland) and Grzegorz Zych (Cracow, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An access-control mechanism, wireless device, and method for controlling the access-control mechanism and wireless device is provided herein. During operation the wireless device will create a "group" of dev...