US Patent Issued to Southco on Aug. 5 for "Rotary latch assembly with multiple striker engagements" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,802, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Southco Inc. (Concordville, Pa.).

"Rotary latch assembly with multiple striker engagements" was invented by James Gerard Guthlein (Malvern, Pa.) and Andrew James Thornton (Worcester, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotary latch assembly includes a latch release having a detent and a pawl that is rotatable relative to the latch release about a pivot axis. The pawl includes at least one catch for engaging the detent to releasably hold the pawl in a fixed orientation. At least two contact surfaces are offset from the pivot axis. At least one spring is mounted to the pawl. The pawl is ...