US Patent Issued to Honeywell International on July 14 for "Door latch assembly with wireless overlock" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,338, issued on July 14, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Door latch assembly with wireless overlock" was invented by Adam Kuenzi (Salem, Ore.), Thomas Grinter (Salem, Ore.), Jon Luebeck (Salem, Ore.) and Matthew Hill (Sublimity, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A door latch assembly includes a housing; a bolt configured to the extend from the housing in a first direction and retract into the housing in a second direction; a handle connected to the bolt; a lockable, blocking member configured to prevent movement of the bolt; a controller configured to place the door latch assembly into an overlock mo...