ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,753,635, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Guangdong Manshen Intelligent Technology Co. Ltd. (Zhongshan, China).

"Electronic door lock with clutch" was invented by Baoqiang Zhang (Zhongshan, China) and Pengfei Zhang (Zhongshan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided in the present disclosure is an electronic door lock with a clutch, including an external lock. The external lock includes: a front housing; a front knob assembly rotatably inserted into the front housing, where a rotation limiting structure is disposed between the front housing and the front knob assembly; a lock cylinder mounted on the front knob assembly and provided...