US Patent Issued to Schlage Lock on Sept. 23 for "Programmable cylinder lock not requiring a specific change key" (Italian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,763, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Schlage Lock Co. LLC (Carmel, Ind.).

"Programmable cylinder lock not requiring a specific change key" was invented by Alberto Loreti (Rome).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reprogrammable lock cylinder including a stator, a rotor rotatably mounted in the stator, a tumbler assembly mounted in the rotor and operable to permit rotation of the rotor when a first key is inserted into the rotor, the tumbler assembly having a reprogramming state in which the tumbler assembly is operable to be reprogrammed by a second key to match the second key, and an insert configured to cause the tumbler assembly ...