ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,492, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc. (Nagano, Japan).
"Electric lock device" was invented by Kazuhiro Nakaishi (Hiroshima, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Upon detecting that an operation knob is operated from a lock position to an unlock position within a set time Tset_a and is operated to the lock position based on an input from a potential sensor 15, a control portion 13 of an electronic lock device switches from self-lock control to self-lock temporary stopping control."
The patent was filed on Dec. 28, 2021, under Application No. 18/723,947.
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