US Patent Issued on Sept. 1 for "Systems and methods for providing a size and/or shape discriminating lock" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,478, issued on Sept. 1.

"Systems and methods for providing a size and/or shape discriminating lock" was invented by Thomas Pettit Munson (Lake Stevens, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for operating a locking device. The methods comprising: performing operations by at least one sensor of the locking device to generate sensor data indicating at least one of a size of an animal and a shape of an animal; comparing, by a processing unit of the locking device, the size of the animal to at least one threshold value and/or the shape of the animal to a reference shape; classifying, by the processing unit, the animal a...