US Patent Issued to Purdue Research Foundation on Feb. 4 for "Locking devices, systems, and methods of use" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,559, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Ind.).

"Locking devices, systems, and methods of use" was invented by Justin Douglas Tarman (Goshen, Ind.), Matthew W. Barrett (Granger, Ind.), Nicholas Aaron Catanzarite (West Lafayette, Ind.), Jesse A. Ham (Mishawaka, Ind.) and Dominic A. Layne (South Bend, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Locking devices, systems, and methods for securing personal property to separate structures. Such a locking device includes a lock body, a cable within the lock body and having a first end accessible from an exterior of the lock body, a spool for extending and re...