ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,471, issued on July 15, was assigned to ABUS August Bremicker Sohne KG (Wetter-Volmarstein, Germany).
"Chain lock and chain for a chain lock" was invented by Ernst Pankratius (Wetter, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A chain lock comprises a lock body and a chain lockable to the lock body. This chain comprises a serial arrangement of consecutive links coupled to one another via a respective articulated joint and pivotable relative to one another about a joint axis, which is parallel to a normal direction, of the respective articulated joint. The arrangement is foldable into a compact storage configuration in which, at each of t...