US Patent Issued to Alfred International on July 15 for "Motorized lock method and assembly" (Canadian, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,466, issued on July 15, was assigned to Alfred International Inc. (Ontario, Canada).

"Motorized lock method and assembly" was invented by Daniel K. Cook (Oshawa, Canada), David A. Turk (Downsview, Canada) and Zhi Yong Su (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motorized lock assembly and a method of motorizing a lock installed in a door. The motorized lock assembly including a motorized drive assembly to be mounted to an interior side of the door in driving engagement with a bolt assembly of the lock. The motorized lock assembly also including a communications assembly to receive an instruction from a user and to direct an ...