ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,747, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).
"Lock body, pin lock and command device" was invented by Christian Baumann (Fensterbach, Germany) and Jean Jacques Faurie (Nuremberg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lock body for a pin lock is of multipart construction and has a main body and a divider, mounted on the main body, with a plurality of bores for receiving springs and locking pins. The mechanical division of the lock body into the main body and the divider allows simpler and more cost-effective production since the lock body no longer needs to be complicatedly machined out of a solid material, for exam...