ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,264,500, issued on April 1, was assigned to Schlage Lock Co. LLC (Carmel, Ind.).
"Lock status indicators" was invented by Gururaj Amaresh Hiremath (Badami, India), Akhil Ramesh Hamsagar (Bangalore, India), Steven Verderaime (Colorado Springs, Colo.), Eric Drummond (Divide, Colo.), Jaime Sandoval Jr. (Colorado Springs, Colo.) and Stephen Couch (Woodland Park, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example trim generally includes an escutcheon, an indicator plate, a cam, and a backplate. The indicator plate is movably mounted in the escutcheon, and has a first position in which a first indicium is aligned with an escutcheon window of the ...