ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,560, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Schlage Lock Co. LLC (Carmel, Ind.).

"Ultra-wideband technologies for seamless access control" was invented by Ryan C. Kincaid (Indianapolis), Robert Prostko (Carmel, Ind.), Robert Martens (Carmel, Ind.), Benjamin J. Hopkins (Zionsville, Ind.), David M. Baty (Indianapolis), Srikanth Venkateswaran (Carmel, Ind.) and Christopher R. Baker (Fishers, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system according to one embodiment includes a first computing device comprising ultra-wideband communication circuitry, and a second computing device comprising ultra-wideband communication circuitry configured to com...