ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,155, issued on June 3, was assigned to STENDALS EL AB (Vasteras, Sweden).
"Locking device for mechanical and non-mechanical activation of a locking bolt" was invented by Lars Jensen (Surahammar, Sweden) and Olov Stendal (Vasteras, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a locking device comprising-a locking bolt (12), -follower arrangement (30) comprising a follower arm (32) and a follower (31) for mechanical activation of the locking device (12), -a non-mechanical activation unit (A) connected to a rod arrangement (40) wherein the locking device (10) comprises a coupler (50) for coupling a movement of t...