ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,840, issued on May 20, was assigned to DAVINCI LOCK LLC (Raleigh, N.C.).

"System and method for revealing unlock codes for locks" was invented by Bradford A. Minsley (Raleigh, N.C.) and Clifton P. Minsley (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure transmit and/or reveal unlock codes for locks based on trigger events and include associating unlock codes and lock identifiers with different physical locks in a database, receiving an indication associated with one of the physical locks from a communications device, retrieving an unlock code associated with the physical lock and transmitting the un...