ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,944, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to GRAMMER AG (Ursensollen, Germany).

"Locking mechanism" was invented by Gerhard Delling (Schmidgaden, Germany), Deepak Auty (Amberg, Germany), Daniel Ilarraza (Grafenwohr, Germany), Kadir Yasaroglu (Bad Schonborn, Germany) and Stefan Reil (Pfreimd, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention concerns a locking mechanism provided and adapted to interact with at least one locking element to establish a locking between the locking mechanism and the locking element, wherein the locking mechanism comprises a first locking pawl and a second locking pawl which are rotatable independently of ea...