US Patent Issued to Schlage Lock on Aug. 12 for "Sensing and control of access control devices" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,286, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Schlage Lock Co. LLC (Carmel, Ind.).

"Sensing and control of access control devices" was invented by Vishal S. Kusanale (Bangalore, India), Avinash K. Vedamurthy (Bangalore, India) and John C. Carpenter (Ingalls, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exemplary method generally relates to operating an access control device including a motor, a locking member, and a target component operably connected with the locking member. The motor may be operated to drive the locking member in a first direction from an initial position toward a desired position. When the locking member is blocked from movin...