ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,422, issued on May 20, was assigned to NCR Atleos Corp. (Atlanta).
"Lock with tamper-evident security" was invented by David William Wallace (Cleish, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A safe with lock tampering capabilities is provided. A lock apparatus includes a lock body, a lock backplate, a lock, and a sensor. The sensor raises an event when a first end and/or a send end of the sensor loses contact with a surface of the lock body and/or a surface of the lock backplate. The event is reported by the safe as a lock tampering event. Whenever the safe loses power and is subsequently restored power, the safe reports a lock t...