US Patent Issued to LOCKUS on May 6 for "Electronic lock" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,893, issued on May 6, was assigned to LOCKUS LLC (Dayton, Ohio).

"Electronic lock" was invented by Rachel Bloom (Dayton, Ohio), Julie Bloom (Dayton, Ohio) and Saul Owide (Columbus, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic lock includes a housing, and a locking system within the housing. The locking system includes electronics and a lock. More particularly, the housing contains therein, a controller and at least one electronic input device electrically coupled to the controller, where the controller causes the lock to transition between a locked position to an unlocked position responsive to input from the electronic input de...