ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,709,915, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to DORMAKABA SCHWEIZ AG (Kempten, Switzerland).

"Key with light device for an electromechanical locking device" was invented by Martin Buholzer (Wetzikon, Switzerland), Stefan Greil (Wetzikon, Switzerland), Alex Bruehwiler (Wetzikon, Switzerland), Lukas Richter (Zurich, Switzerland) and Marcel Kolliker (Wetzikon, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A key for an electromechanical locking device, with a key bow, wherein the key bow includes a light device, and wherein the key bow has electronics configured to actuate the light device for reproducing at least one item of information in a lumin...