ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,341, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to ABUS August Bremicker Sohne KG (Wetter-Volmarstein, Germany).
"Electronic frame lock" was invented by Andreas Kipping (Selbach, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic frame lock has a control device that is configured, starting from an open position of a round hoop of the frame lock, based on a closing command, to control an electric motor to rotate a cam into a release position and, as a result, to move a latch preloaded into a locking position into an unlocking position; to then control the electric motor to rotate the cam into a preloading position in which the latch is released ...