US Patent Issued to THE CHAMBERLAIN GROUP on Oct. 7 for "System and methods for controlling a movable barrier operator" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,558, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to THE CHAMBERLAIN GROUP LLC (Oak Brook, Ill.).

"System and methods for controlling a movable barrier operator" was invented by James Joseph Fitzgibbon (Batavia, Ill.), Garth Wesley Hopkins (Lisle, Ill.), Oddy Khamharn (Lombard, Ill.) and Adelaide Zhang (Northbrook, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one respect, a method of controlling a movable barrier operator including receiving, via communication circuitry of an in-vehicle device, a wireless signal indicating communication of a state change request to the movable barrier operator, the state change request configured to cause the movable bar...