US Patent Issued to Fidlock on Feb. 18 for "Closure device for connecting two assemblies to one another" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,227,255, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Fidlock GmbH (Hannover, Germany).

"Closure device for connecting two assemblies to one another" was invented by Joachim Fiedler (Hannover, Germany), Breido Botkus (Hannover, Germany), Friedemann Richter (Hannover, Germany) and Dennis Dierschke (Hannover, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a closure device for connecting two assemblies to one another. The closure device includes a first closure part which has a locking piece with a first locking section and a first magnetic element, a second closure part which has a second locking section and a second magnetic element, and an arr...