US 12,283,146 B2
Methods and apparatus for accessing secured physical assets at a facility utilized for maintenance and management
Jon Kristian Terp, Islamorada, FL (US)
Assigned to 1Micro, LLC, Waconia, MN (US)
Filed by 1Micro, LLC, Waconia, MN (US)
Filed on Jul. 25, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/872,900.
Application 17/872,900 is a continuation of application No. 16/881,125, filed on May 22, 2020, granted, now 11,398,122.
Application 16/881,125 is a continuation of application No. 15/962,282, filed on Apr. 25, 2018, granted, now 10,665,047, issued on May 26, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/491,721, filed on Apr. 28, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2023/0082024 A1, Mar. 16, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G07F 17/00 (2006.01); G06K 19/06 (2006.01); G07C 9/28 (2020.01)
CPC G07C 9/28 (2020.01) [G06K 19/06037 (2013.01); G07F 17/0014 (2013.01); G07F 17/0057 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A facility access system for facilitating on-site access to physical assets, comprising:
a non-human controlled physical structure having one or more actuated features each configured to provide non-human controlled, selective access to one or more secured physical assets for retrieval by a user of the one or more secured physical assets, the physical structure including,
an optical unit configured to receive a unique code provided by an external source from the user;
a computing platform configured to (i) validate the unique code received by the optical unit, (ii) provide a present status of the one or more secured physical assets based on the unique code to the user, (iii) actuate the one or more actuated features associated with the one or more secured physical assets that corresponds to the unique code thereby permitting selective access for retrieval by the user, (iv) start a timer that defines a wait period for extraction of the secured physical asset, (v) a sensor configured to sense the transfer of the one or more secured physical assets retrieved by the user, and wherein the transfer is aborted when the asset is not extracted prior to expiration of the wait period, and (vi) the present status is updated to transferred when the user takes possession of the one or more physical assets.