ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,425, issued on May 20, was assigned to DIRAK Dieter Ramsauer Konstruktionselemente GmbH (Ennepetal, Germany).
"Swivel lever device and system for actuating a closure apparatus of an access control device" was invented by Cem Olkay (Witten, Germany) and Peter Hoschler (Velbert, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a swivel lever device for actuating a closure apparatus, in particular a bolt-closure means and/or bar-closure means, of an access control device, in particular a door and/or hatch, having: a housing for fastening the swivel lever device, in particular to the access control device, and a swivel lev...