ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,078, issued on July 1, was assigned to EMKA BESCHLAGTEILE GMBH & Co. KG (Velbert, Germany).
"Closure" was invented by Florian Wardi (Velbert, Germany) and Thorsten Kuhnke (Velbert, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an exemplary embodiment, a door lock includes a locking latch which is rotatable to and fro between a locking position and an unlocking position; a locking holder that engages the locking latch in a locking position; and a stop that limits the rotational movement of the locking latch; wherein the stop is repositionable and provides different stop positions in different stop receptacles."
The patent was filed on Dec...