Patents Assigned to Assa Abloy AB
  • Publication number: 20250040740
    Abstract: It is provided a receptacle holder (1, 1a-b) for selectively allowing a receptacle (4, 4a-b) to be removed. The receptacle holder (1, 1a-b) comprises: an attachment member (10) being configured to engage with a receptacle (4, 4a-b) to selectively keep the receptacle (4, 4a-b) in a locked engagement with the receptacle holder (1, 1a-b); a processor (60); and a memory (64) storing instructions (67) that, when executed by the processor, cause the receptacle holder (1, 1a-b) to: determine to unlock the attachment member (10); and unlock the receptable (4, 4a-b) from the attachment member (10). A corresponding receptacle holder, computer program and computer program product are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2022
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Applicant: Assa Abloy AB
    Inventors: Fredrik Einberg, Kaj Niegmann
  • Patent number: 10742630
    Abstract: Method and devices for making access decisions in a secure access network are provided. The access decisions are made by one or more portable credentials using data and algorithms stored on or received by two or more credentials. Since access decisions are made by the portable credential or credentials, non-networked hosts or local hosts can be employed that do not necessarily need to be connected to a central access controller or database, thereby reducing the cost of building and maintaining the secure access network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Assa Abloy AB
    Inventors: Mark Anthony Caterino, Fredrik Carl Stefan Einberg, Philip Hoyer, Daniel Berg, Masha Leah Davis, Robert Wamsley, Tam Hulusi
  • Patent number: 10437980
    Abstract: Method and devices for making access decisions in a secure access network are provided. The access decisions are made by a portable credential using data and algorithms stored on the credential. Since access decisions are made by the portable credential non-networked hosts or local hosts can be employed that do not necessarily need to be connected to a central access controller or database thereby reducing the cost of building and maintaining the secure access network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: Assa Abloy AB
    Inventors: Masha Leah Davis, Robert Wamsley, Tam Hulusi
  • Patent number: 10339292
    Abstract: Method and devices for making access decisions in a secure access network are provided. The access decisions are made by a portable credential using data and algorithms stored on the credential. Since access decisions are made by the portable credential non-networked hosts or local hosts can be employed that do not necessarily need to be connected to a central access controller or database thereby reducing the cost of building and maintaining the secure access network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Assa Abloy AB
    Inventors: Masha Leah Davis, Robert Wamsley, Tam Hulusi
  • Publication number: 20190173874
    Abstract: An authentication system is provided using one-time passwords (OTPs) for user authentication. An OTP key may be stored on a different device than the device on which the OTP is generated. In an embodiment, the system described herein enables a combined authentication system, including the two separate devices communicating over a non-contact interface, to provide advantageous security features compared to the use of a single device, such as a hardware OTP token. One device may be a personal security device and the other device may be a reader device coupled to a host device via which access is being controlled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Applicant: Assa Abloy AB
    Inventors: Julian Eric Lovelock, Philip Hoyer
  • Publication number: 20190130676
    Abstract: A portable authentication system includes a security module, that may be a smart card, SIM (Subscriber Identity Module), USB controller with a secure chip, or similar module capable of storing one or more credentials, and an interface module such as a digital badge holder that is able to communicate with the security module, for instance by providing a smart card communication interface. The portable authentication system may be either a single integrated system or a dual system where the security module can be removed or disconnected from the interface system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Applicant: Assa Abloy AB
    Inventors: Yves Gabriel Louis Audebert, Eric F. Le Saint, Jason Hart, Dominique Louis Joseph Fedronic
  • Publication number: 20190088049
    Abstract: An integrated security system which seamlessly assimilates with current generation logical security systems. The integrated security system incorporates a security controller having standard network interface capabilities including IEEE 802.x and takes advantage of the convenience and security offered by smart cards and related devices for both physical and logical security purposes. The invention is based on standard remote authentication dial-in service (RADIUS) protocols or TCP/IP using SSL, TLS, PCT or IPsec and stores a shared secret required by the secure communication protocols in a secure access module coupled to the security controller. The security controller is intended to be a networked client or embedded intelligent device controlled remotely by to an authentication server. In another embodiment of the invention one or more life cycle management transactions are performed with the secure access module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Applicant: Assa Abloy AB
    Inventors: Dominique Louis Joseph Fedronic, Wu Wen
  • Patent number: 10204463
    Abstract: A portable authentication system includes a security module, that may be a smart card, SIM (Subscriber Identity Module), USB controller with a secure chip, or similar module capable of storing one or more credentials, and an interface module such as a digital badge holder that is able to communicate with the security module, for instance by providing a smart card communication interface. The portable authentication system may be either a single integrated system or a dual system where the security module can be removed or disconnected from the interface system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: Assa Abloy AB
    Inventors: Yves Gabriel Louis Audebert, Eric F. Le Saint, Jason Hart, Dominique Louis Joseph Fedronic
  • Patent number: 10178078
    Abstract: A secure and transparent digital credential sharing arrangement which utilizes one or more cryptographic levels of indirection to obfuscate a sharing entity's credentials from those entities authorized to share the credentials. A security policy table is provided which allows the sharing entity to selectively authorize or revoke digital credential sharing among a plurality of entities. Various embodiments of the invention provide for secure storage and retrieval of digital credentials from security tokens such as smart cards. The secure sharing arrangement may be implemented in hierarchical or non-hierarchical embodiments as desired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: Assa Abloy AB
    Inventors: John Jules Alexander Boyer, Eric F. Le Saint
  • Patent number: 10127377
    Abstract: Managing validity status of at least one associated credential includes providing a credential manager that selectively validates associated credentials for at least one device, the device invalidating a corresponding associated credential, and the device requesting that the credential manager validate the corresponding associated credential after invalidating the associated credential. The associated credential may be invalidated based on an external event, such as a user invalidating the associated credential from a UI of the device, a user improperly entering a pin value, a user indicating that a corresponding device is lost, the device entering sleep mode, the device locking a user interface thereof, the device shutting down, and a particular time of day. The at least one associated credential may be provided on an integrated circuit card (ICC) that may be part of a mobile phone and/or a smart card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: Assa Abloy AB
    Inventor: Eric F. Le Saint
  • Patent number: 10129248
    Abstract: An authentication system is provided using one-time passwords (OTPs) for user authentication. An OTP key may be stored on a different device than the device on which the OTP is generated. In an embodiment, the system described herein enables a combined authentication system, including the two separate devices communicating over a non-contact interface, to provide advantageous security features compared to the use of a single device, such as a hardware OTP token. One device may be a personal security device and the other device may be a reader device coupled to a host device via which access is being controlled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: Assa Abloy AB
    Inventors: Julian Eric Lovelock, Philip Hoyer
  • Patent number: 10105981
    Abstract: In a transfer printing method using a transfer layer on a carrier layer, an image is printed over a transfer section of the transfer layer using a thermal print head and a print ribbon. At least one non-transfer portion of the transfer section is heated using the thermal print head without bonding the at least one non-transfer portion of the transfer section to the print ribbon. The at least one non-transfer portions of the transfer section are transferred from the carrier layer to an adhesive panel of the print ribbon using the thermal print head. Imaged transfer portions of the transfer section remain adhered to the carrier layer. The imaged transfer portions of the transfer section are then transferred from the carrier layer to a substrate using a transfer device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: Assa Abloy AB
    Inventors: Matthew Broberg, Gary Countryman, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10089803
    Abstract: An integrated security system which seamlessly assimilates with current generation logical security systems. The integrated security system incorporates a security controller having standard network interface capabilities including IEEE 802.x and takes advantage of the convenience and security offered by smart cards and related devices for both physical and logical security purposes. The invention is based on standard remote authentication dial-in service (RADIUS) protocols or TCP/IP using SSL, TLS, PCT or IPsec and stores a shared secret required by the secure communication protocols in a secure access module coupled to the security controller. The security controller is intended to be a networked client or embedded intelligent device controlled remotely by to an authentication server. In another embodiment of the invention one or more life cycle management transactions are performed with the secure access module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Assa Abloy AB
    Inventors: Dominique Louis Joseph Fedronic, Wu Wen
  • Patent number: 10042990
    Abstract: Atomically modifying a personal security device includes presenting the personal security device to a reader/writer coupled to an access module, the access module determining if the personal security device includes a factory security mechanism, and, if the personal security device includes a factory security mechanism, using the reader/writer and the access module to replace the factory security mechanism with another security mechanism. The access module may authenticate the personal security device in connection with replacing the factory security mechanism. Authenticating the personal security device may grant access to a user through a door controlled by the access module. Replacing the factory security mechanism may include replacing an application on the personal security device. An ISO/IEC 7816-13 application management request command may be used to replace the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: Assa Abloy AB
    Inventors: Kapil Sachdeva, Philip Hoyer, Eric F. Le Saint, Sylvain Prevost
  • Patent number: D861460
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: Assa Abloy AB
    Inventor: Christof Ronge
  • Patent number: D881054
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Assa Abloy AB
    Inventor: Christof Ronge
  • Patent number: D891223
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Assa Abloy AB
    Inventor: Christof Ronge
  • Patent number: D891225
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Assa Abloy AB
    Inventor: Christof Ronge
  • Patent number: D891226
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Assa Abloy AB
    Inventor: Christof Ronge
  • Patent number: D892594
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Assa Abloy AB
    Inventor: Christof Ronge