US Patent Issued to Schlage Lock on Oct. 21 for "Exit device systems and methods" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,820, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Schlage Lock Co. LLC (Carmel, Ind.).

"Exit device systems and methods" was invented by Paul R. Arlinghaus (Fishers, Ind.), Jack R. Lehner Jr. (Indianapolis) and Evan Ballard (Noblesville, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exit device according to one embodiment includes a plurality of sensors and an electronic dogging mechanism. The exit device is configured to locally analyze sensor data to determine the security state of the exit device, report data to a management system via a wireless communication channel established between the exit device and the management system, and receive and p...