US Patent Issued to Command Acess Technology on July 14 for "Cylindrical lock with motor-driven latch" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,345, issued on July 14, was assigned to Command Acess Technology Inc. (Yorba Linda, Calif.).

"Cylindrical lock with motor-driven latch" was invented by Carlos Fernandez (Anaheim, Calif.), Parssa Sabouhi (Corona, Calif.), Agustin Valadez (Fullerton, Calif.) and Lutz Mueller (Glendale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cylindrical lock with a latch bolt, including an electro-mechanical mechanism enabling pull-back of the latch bolt to a retracted position. In an exemplary embodiment, the electro-mechanical mechanism includes an electrically powered motor and a drive linkage system coupling the motor to the latch bolt, the electro...