US Patent Issued to Schlage Lock on Oct. 28 for "Electronic door with key-in-lever feature" (Indiana, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,847, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Schlage Lock Co. LLC (Carmel, Ind.).

"Electronic door with key-in-lever feature" was invented by James W. Brown (Westfield, Ind.), James W. Overbey (Indianapolis) and Alfred S. Levesque (Newington, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic door lock is operable to control access to an access controlled area adjacent the inner side of a door. The door lock includes an outer base, an inner base, a locking mechanism movable between a locked and unlocked position in response to a control signal, and a control circuit disposed within the inner base and operable to generate the control signa...