US Patent Issued to M & C PROTECT on July 14 for "Cylinder lock and method for mounting such a cylinder lock" (Dutch Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,335, issued on July 14, was assigned to M & C PROTECT B.V. (Didam, Netherlands).

"Cylinder lock and method for mounting such a cylinder lock" was invented by Cornelis Jacobus Johannes Marinus Overbeeke (Didam, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cylinder lock that can be simply assembled and disassembled has a cylinder housing, a bridge and a cam. In the cylinder housing, a first locking pin is fixedly received in a locking pin bore. The locking pin passes a cylindrical recess in the cylinder housing transversely. A first cylindrical end of the bridge is provided with a locking pin recess and with a flattened side which exte...