US Patent Issued to DORMAKABA SCHWEIZ on Oct. 14 for "Electronic monitoring of the locking status of a utility locking system" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,217, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to DORMAKABA SCHWEIZ AG (Wetzikon, Switzerland).

"Electronic monitoring of the locking status of a utility locking system" was invented by Tom Meier (Wetzikon, Switzerland), Stephan Hanselmann (Wetzikon, Switzerland), Stefan Schwendeler (Wetzikon, Switzerland) and Martin Buholzer (Wetzikon, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for outputting a notification about the existence of a status of a locking system that is to be avoided, with the locking system having an electronic knob and a locking device which may be actuated with the electronic knob, with a force being transmitted from ...