US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America on Feb. 11 for "Electric lock control method, electric lock control system, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,223,785, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).

"Electric lock control method, electric lock control system, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium" was invented by Masashi Hisai (Osaka, Japan), Manabu Maeda (Osaka, Japan), Ryo Kato (Osaka, Japan), Naohisa Nishida (Osaka, Japan), Kenji Harada (Osaka, Japan), Tomoyuki Haga (Nara, Japan) and Yuji Unagami (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric lock control method includes: performing a first determination of whether a person is present in a predetermined region surrounding an electric loc...