US Patent Issued to Schlage Lock on Dec. 30 for "Single degree of freedom components for lock assemblies" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,912, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Schlage Lock Co. LLC (Carmel, Ind.).

"Single degree of freedom components for lock assemblies" was invented by Ravi Telang (Karnataka, India), Matthew Stonebraker (Bloomington, Ind.), Vishal Salitkumar Kusanale (Karnataka, India), Nagesh Varadaraju (Karnataka, India) and Suresha Chandrasekharareddy (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pick shield for a door lock assembly that is configured to be restricted to a single degree of freedom relative to a backing plate of the door lock assembly when being secured to at least a portion of the door lock assembly. The pick shield is config...