US Patent Issued to Security People on Oct. 14 for "Electronically operated latch" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,220, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Security People Inc. (Houston).

"Electronically operated latch" was invented by T. Asil Gokcebay (Petaluma, Calif.), Ali Ozhan (Petaluma, Calif.) and An Zhang (Shaoguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronically operated locking device and associated system of lockers is disclosed. The system of lockers may contain multiple locking devices, some of which may be connected to each other via hardwiring in daisy chain fashion. A module may distribute instructions to the locking devices, and the module may be connected to a controller, which may in turn be connected to the internet. A p...