Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Internet-connected garage door control system
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Application No.: US15658575Application Date: 2017-07-25
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Publication No.: US10339734B2Publication Date: 2019-07-02
- Inventor: Frederick T. Bauer , Robert R. Turnbull , Uma Ivaturi
- Applicant: Gentex Corporation
- Applicant Address: US MI Zeeland
- Assignee: GENTEX CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: GENTEX CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: US MI Zeeland
- Agency: Price Heneveld LLP
- Agent Bradley D. Johnson
- Main IPC: G07C9/00
- IPC: G07C9/00

Abstract:
An internet-connected garage door control system is disclosed that includes a garage door opener for opening and closing a garage door in response to signals received through the internet, and an in-vehicle remote garage door opener integrated into a vehicle for transmitting the signals through the internet to the garage door opener. The in-vehicle remote garage door opener includes an interface configured to communicate with an internet-connected device, a trainable RF transceiver for transmitting an RF signal to the garage door opener, a user-actuated input, an interface configured to communicate with an internet-connected device, and a controller, wherein, upon actuation of the user-actuated input, the controller is configured to at least one of (a) request a signal to be transmitted by the internet-connected device through the internet to the garage door opener, and (b) cause the trainable RF transceiver to transmit the RF signal to the garage door opener.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170323498A1 INTERNET-CONNECTED GARAGE DOOR CONTROL SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2017-11-09
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