US Patent Issued to ASSA ABLOY on Nov. 25 for "Lock device for an electronic locking system, electronic locking system and method" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,338, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to ASSA ABLOY AB (Stockholm).

"Lock device for an electronic locking system, electronic locking system and method" was invented by Oscar Sundkvist (Taby, Sweden), Johan Von Matern (Taby, Sweden) and Daniel Skarp (Enebyberg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Lock device for an electronic locking system, the lock device comprising an input member arranged to rotate about an input rotational axis; an output member arranged to rotate about an output rotational axis; an energy harvesting arrangement configured to generate electric energy from rotation of the input member in a first direction about ...