ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,784, issued on March 25, was assigned to Instant Care Inc. (San Diego).
"Door strike plate sensor" was invented by Richard Darling (Poway, Calif.), George Seelman (Temecula, Calif.), Steven Stallard (Escondido, Calif.) and Fong Chang (Diamond Bar, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A door position detector including a strike plate mounted onto a door frame. The strike plate includes a back face that opposes the door frame and a front face disposed on an opposite side of the strike plate than the back face and opposing an edge of a door when the door is in a closed position. The door position detector further including a door posi...