ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,264,498, issued on April 1, was assigned to Mul-T-Lock Technologies Ltd. (Yavne, Israel).
"Rotatable magnetic key combination element" was invented by Effi Ben-Aharon (Hod HaSharon, Israel) and Asaf Bortman (Yavne, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A key device (10) includes a generally elongate shaft portion (12), and at least one magnetic key combination element (20) disposed in the shaft portion (12), which is rotatable about a rotation axis (22)."
The patent was filed on April 19, 2020, under Application No. 17/607,036.
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