US Patent Issued to THE CHAMBERLAIN GROUP on Feb. 4 for "Systems and methods for controlling a locking mechanism using a portable electronic device" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,219,081, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to THE CHAMBERLAIN GROUP LLC (Oak Brook, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for controlling a locking mechanism using a portable electronic device" was invented by Paul Michael Gerhardt (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Charles Cameron Robertson (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for operating a remotely operable lock. In an example embodiment, a method comprises receiving credentials at a web service from a portable electronic device, authenticating the credentials, and based on a successful authentication, issuing a command for receipt by the lock from the web se...