ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,244, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Hanchett Entry Systems Inc. (Phoenix).
"Electrified latch" was invented by Baruch Spence (Phoenix), Ryan M. Sims (Mesa, Ariz.), Ben Williams (Queen Creek, Ariz.) and James Griffin (Chandler, Ariz.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electromechanical component for a locking mechanism is provided. The locking mechanism includes a latching component having a latch member reciprocally movable between a locked orientation and an unlocked orientation. The electromechanical component comprises a drive member configured to be coupled to the latch member, an actuator operably coupled to the drive member,...