ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,675, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to S. Franzen Sohne GmbH (Langenfeld, Germany).
"Lock, in particular rubbish bin lock" was invented by Manfred Matuschek (Solingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lock has a rotary latch held in a closed position by a pawl, that can be displaced into a release position in which the rotary latch can rotate into an open position. The lock has a storage element which, when the pawl is displaced into the release position, is displaced from a rest position into a storage position in which the pawl is blocked from being displaced back into its locking position and which, when the rotary latc...