ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,868, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS INC. (Chicago).

"Reliable lockdown communication in wireless electronic locks" was invented by Alexander Kazerani (Pacific Palisades, Calif.) and Amir Khakpour (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example apparatus includes a locking mechanism, a transceiver, a memory storing a default plan for the locking mechanism, and an electronic processor. The electronic processor is configured to retrieve, from the memory, and execute cause the electronic processor to: control the locking mechanism based on the default plan and a current time; receive, via the transceiver, a ...