ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,782, issued on March 25, was assigned to Schlage Lock Co. LLC (Carmel, Ind.).
"Magnetic lockset" was invented by Dustin Swartz (Bothell, Wash.), Ryan Martin (Mill Creek, Wash.) and Jeffrey Morovich (Everett, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exemplary lockset includes a mortise case, a magnet assembly mounted in the mortise case, and a manual actuator operable to move the magnet assembly between a coupling position in which a first magnet of the magnet assembly is aligned with a reference point and a decoupling position in which the first magnet is misaligned with the reference point. In certain embodiments, the magnet assembl...