ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,682, issued on April 7.

"Boring and routing template jig for door hardware installation" was invented by Garth Fraser (Panania, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A boring and routing template jig for door hardware installation has a side template plate, clamping for holding the side template plate against a side area of a door to be cut and a face template plate orthogonally connected against an edge of the side template plate by a connection so that the face template plate can lie across an edge face area of the door to be cut adjacent the side area. The face template plate and the side template plate comprise respective guid...