US Patent Issued to IKEYLESS on April 15 for "Systems and methods for creating duplicate keys" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,494, issued on April 15, was assigned to IKEYLESS LLC (Louisville, Ky.).

"Systems and methods for creating duplicate keys" was invented by Douglas Robertson (Crestwood, Ky.), Adam Pizer (Louisville, Ky.), David Horsfall (Silsden, Great Britain) and Ian Simon Smith (Willenhall, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention generally relates to the field of replicating or copying keys. More specifically, the present invention relates to creating a copy of a master key based on a captured image of the master key by using a laser scanning of the master key and decoding the master key based on the captured image. The p...