ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,969, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to DORMAKABA CANADA INC. (Montreal, Canada).
"Electronic lock" was invented by Alain Chiquette (Montreal, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The electronic lock can have a housing having a wall portion being flat, and a keypad. The keypad can have a sequence of characters aligned along an axis parallel to the wall portion, defined by corresponding translucent areas extending across the thickness of the wall portion; a set of touch sensors underlying corresponding ones of the characters of the sequence; a light guide underlying the wall portion, the light guide being flat, parallel to the wall...