US Patent Issued to Qorvo US on Dec. 9 for "Ultra-wideband-enabled devices and systems for facilitating access control" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,818, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Qorvo US Inc. (Greensboro, N.C.).

"Ultra-wideband-enabled devices and systems for facilitating access control" was invented by Christophe Le Thierry d'Ennequin (Paris), Guillaume Vivier (Paris), Gabriele Perrone (Antibes, France) and Eric Perraud (Toulouse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating an ultra-wideband (UWB) device includes detecting the UWB device entering an access-controlled area that includes a gate configured to perform a UWB communication, retrieving an access token from an application server of the access-controlled area through a wireless communication oth...