ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,938, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to ABUS August Bremicker Sohne KG (Wetter-Volmarstein, Germany).
"Joint bar arrangement for a joint bar lock and a joint bar lock" was invented by Martin Hommel (Rehe, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A joint bar arrangement for a joint bar lock comprises a plurality of joint bars connected to one another in series according to a defined sequence, including a first joint bar and a last joint bar according to the sequence, each extending along a longitudinal extent from a first end section to a second end section, and each joint bar, with the exception of the last joint bar, is coupled with i...