US Patent Issued to Illinois Tool Works on Aug. 11 for "Door lock" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,999, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).

"Door lock" was invented by Zhenpeng Song (Dongguan City, China) and Yang Wang (Dongguan City, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A door lock includes a housing, a locking unit, and a slider, wherein the locking unit is provided within the housing, the locking unit movable with respect to the housing so as to assume a locked position and a released position. The slider is connected to the locking unit is configured to be movable between a first position and a second position, wherein when the slider moves from the first position to the second positio...