US Patent Issued to Schlage Lock on April 1 for "Technologies for secure inter-processor communications" (Colorado, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,267,412, issued on April 1, was assigned to Schlage Lock Co. LLC (Carmel, Ind.).

"Technologies for secure inter-processor communications" was invented by Brian Gilchrist (Golden, Colo.), Joseph W. Baumgarte (Carmel, Ind.), Gregory Ross (Carmel, Ind.), Terry Small (Indianapolis) and Aaron Schlicht (Golden, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An access control device according to an embodiment includes a lock mechanism, a digital core PCBA including at least one first processor and at least one first memory and is configured to facilitate wireless communications, wherein the at least one first memory is provisioned with a master initializ...