ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,539, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Codelocks International Ltd. (Newbury, Great Britain).
"Energy source access in a lock" was invented by Michael Edwin Ayre (Wantage, Great Britain), Martin James Clayton (Newbury, Great Britain) and Dominic Michael Ryan (Newbury, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surface-mounted keylessly operated lock (10) comprises a chassis (11) mountable on one of two parts, especially a door and a door surround, to be locked and unlocked relative to one another and carrying locking means (17 to 23) transferrable between a locking state and an unlocking state respectively for the locking and unlo...