US Patent Issued to I-TEK METAL on July 14 for "Door lock operating device with an alert function" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,341, issued on July 14, was assigned to I-TEK METAL MFG. Co. LTD. (Tainan, Taiwan).

"Door lock operating device with an alert function" was invented by Chang-Ren Wu (Tainan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A door lock operating device with an alert function comprises an operating portion and an indicating portion. A lighting unit is disposed in the indicating portion and is electrically connected to the operating portion. The operating portion includes an outer connecting member interlocked with an anti-theft latch of a door lock and operable to move the anti-theft latch between an anti-theft position and a non-anti-theft posit...