ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,881, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Sphinx Electronics GmbH & Co KG (Kenzingen, Germany).
"Self-adjusting locking piece for a locking unit" was invented by Sebastian Stumpp (Winden im Elztal, Germany) and Pascal Bodechon (Ettenheim, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A locking piece includes a housing which has a, in particular, rectangular housing opening and a slide which is arranged in the housing. At the housing side, the slide is guided so as to be able to be linearly displaced between two end positions and which has a locking arm which extends at right-angles with respect to the displacement direction of the slide and p...