US Patent Issued to VIZpin on April 8 for "Smart lock remote admitting system and method" (American, Portuguese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,198, issued on April 8, was assigned to VIZpin Inc. (Lancaster, Pa.).

"Smart lock remote admitting system and method" was invented by Paul Bodell (Lancaster, Pa.), Rui Manuel Andrade Barreira (Oporto, Portugal) and Peter Dikeman (Cotuit, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for facilitating communication between a first person such as an occupant of a building with a smart lock and a second person such as a visitor includes receiving at a computer system, from a visitor device app, a smart lock identifier and a visitor device app identifier so the occupant can establish a communication channel between the occupant and the vi...