ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,903, issued on March 18, was assigned to The Eastern Co. (Naugatuck, Conn.).
"Electrical cam lock with manual override" was invented by Matthew Schroll (Glendale Heights, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides a lock with a radially extending cam that can be pivoted electrically or manually by a key. The lock resides in a housing for ease of manufacture and reduction of space, for use, as an example, as a replacement or retrofit for an existing manual cam lock. The cam extends transversely to a first axis and is manually rotatable by a key about the first axis. The cam is also rotatable about a second axis paral...