US Patent Issued to The Chamberlain Group on July 8 for "Movable barrier operator and transmitter pairing over a network" (Illinois, Wisconsin, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,422, issued on July 8, was assigned to The Chamberlain Group LLC (Oak Brook, Ill.).

"Movable barrier operator and transmitter pairing over a network" was invented by Casparus Cate (Lombard, Ill.), Garth Wesley Hopkins (Lisle, Ill.), Oddy Khamharn (Lombard, Ill.), Mark Edward Miller (Middleton, Wis.) and Cory Sorice (Tampa, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect of the present disclosure, a system and method are provided for pairing a network-enabled movable barrier operator with a transmitter. The method may include receiving a pairing request, retrieving a hashed version of the transmitter fixed code, verifying access auth...