ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,289, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to OPENTECH ALLIANCE INC. (Phoenix).
"Multi-unit access control and information management system" was invented by Robert A. Chiti (Phoenix), Jon Loftin (Phoenix), Frank Dunkin (Phoenix), Jer Schweickart (Phoenix) and Doug Subler (Phoenix).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A locking mechanism includes a hasp having a tongue disposed along a first side of the hasp, and a captive latch pin protruding from the hasp disposed away from the tongue. The locking mechanism includes an actuator assembly with a captive latch and an actuator configured to manipulate the captive latch. The captive latch may receiv...