US Patent Issued to THE CHAMBERLAIN GROUP on Jan. 13 for "Network-based control of movable barrier operations for autonomous vehicles" (Illinois Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,080, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to THE CHAMBERLAIN GROUP LLC (Oak Brook, Ill.).

"Network-based control of movable barrier operations for autonomous vehicles" was invented by David R. Morris (Glenview, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally relates to a system and method for enabling on-demand, temporary storage of an autonomous vehicle in vehicle storage areas of existing infrastructures. The vehicle storage areas include one or more movable barrier operators configured to control access to the vehicle storage areas via movable barriers. An autonomous vehicle access control platform is configured to...