US Patent Issued on Feb. 17 for "Lock for movable freight container cargo door" (Lebanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,265, issued on Feb. 17.

"Lock for movable freight container cargo door" was invented by Joseph Hage (Huntington Beach, Calif.), Pierre Touma (Austin, Texas), Elias Bachaalany (Halat, Lebanon) and Imad Maalouf (El Metn, Lebanon).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lock for permanent attachment to a movable freight container cargo door as a replacement for a prior art hasp or a prior art keeper. The lock is configured for permanent attachment to the cargo door using pre-existing hole locations for the prior art hasp or keeper. The lock comprises a straight shackle and a c-shaped lock body and is configured to retain a door handle between t...