ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,660, issued on June 24, was assigned to Sensormatic Electronics LLC (Boca Raton, Fla.).
"Security tag with unlocking assembly" was invented by Patrick Claeys (Weston, Fla.) and Sergio M. Perez (Lake Worth, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic article surveillance tag with a tag body, a locking member, and unlocking member. The locking member is within the tag body and can receive and releasably engage with a pin portion of a connecting member and lock the connecting member to the tag body. The locking member includes a clutch mechanism movable between a first position in fixed engagement with the pin portion and correspo...