MUMBAI, India, Sept. 28 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202518024092 A) filed by Assa Abloy Ab on March 18, 2025, for Upper Layer Device Architecture For Ultra-Wide Band Enabled Device.

Inventors include Pirch, Hans-Juergen; Steffl, Jan; Prevost, Sylvain Jacques; and Einberg, Fredrik Carl Stefan.

The application for the patent was published on September 25, 2026, under issue no. 39/2026.

Abstract: A method of operating a seamless physical access control system comprises transferring communication session information using an out-of-band (OOB) communication channel of a smart ultra-wide band (UWB) capable device; establishing a secure OOB communication channel between the smart UWB capable device and a reader device using the communication session information; determining that a UWB enabled application of the smart UWB capable device needs secure ranging; establishing a secure UWB communication channel between the smart UWB capable device and the reader device; and transferring ranging information from a secure component of the smart UWB capable device to the reader device via the secure UWB communication channel.

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