US Patent Issued to HavenLock on June 17 for "Locking apparatuses, systems, and methods of providing access control" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,548, issued on June 17, was assigned to HavenLock Inc. (Nashville, Tenn.).

"Locking apparatuses, systems, and methods of providing access control" was invented by Alexander Michael Bertelli (Nashville, Tenn.), Kenneth Clay Banks (Franklin, Tenn.) and Fredrick Bachman Kuhlman III (Nashville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and methods are provided for detecting an alert status of a locking apparatus for an entry point. An external force may be received at a locking apparatus operating in a locked state and determining a first indicia corresponding to the received external force, separately receiving an indic...