US Patent Issued to ASSA ABLOY Americas Residential on Feb. 17 for "Latch assembly and method of installing the same" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,258, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to ASSA ABLOY Americas Residential Inc. (New Haven, Conn.).

"Latch assembly and method of installing the same" was invented by Doo Fai Yip (Rosemead, Calif.), Oscar Romero (Laguna Woods, Calif.), Eric Xin (Xiamen, China), Elena Gorkovenko (Mission Viejo, Calif.) and Cathy Rao (Xiamen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A latch assembly includes a bolt selectively moveable between an extended position and a retracted position. A cam blocker is included and positionable in different configurations. In one configuration, the cam blocker allows the bolt to move towards the retracted position with ac...