ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,450, issued on June 10, was assigned to Schlage Lock Co. LLC (Carmel, Ind.).
"Universal credential" was invented by Joseph W. Baumgarte (Carmel, Ind.), Aaron J. Schlicht (Golden, Colo.), Alex Lammers (Littleton, Colo.), Nelson Henry (Denver) and Garett Madole (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for leveraging a universal credential in an access control system according to one embodiment includes generating, by a cloud system, a CBOR web token for user access to at least one electronic lock, wherein the CBOR web token includes a group tag associated with a set of access rights for a group of users and a cryptographi...