US Patent Issued to THE SUN LOCK on Dec. 9 for "Padlock with biometric opening means" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,579, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to THE SUN LOCK COMPANY Ltd. (Tuen Mun, Hong Kong).

"Padlock with biometric opening means" was invented by Karl Lai (Tai Po, Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A padlock including a lock body, a fingerprint panel configured for operation of the padlock from a locked mode to an unlocked mode by using an electronic mechanism, a shackle having a long leg and a short leg, at least one bolt configured to engage with or disengage with the shackle, a cam to control the movement of the at least one bolt, a sloped-cam to control the movement of the cam, and a motor operatively coupled to the fingerprin...