US Patent Issued to Honeywell International on May 13 for "Method to detect lock box shackle breakage or attempted breakage and activate alert" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,688, issued on May 13, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Method to detect lock box shackle breakage or attempted breakage and activate alert" was invented by Rakesh Aity (Telangana, India) and Rajesh Athelly (Telangana, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of monitoring a lock box. The method includes detecting a magnitude of a force being applied to a shackle of the lock box using a shackle force sensor; determining whether the magnitude of the force exceeds a selected magnitude, the selected magnitude being a predetermined force that indicates an individual is tampering with the shackle; and ...