ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,797, issued on March 3, was assigned to MAISEY FENCE LLC (Anchorage, Alaska).
"Locking mechanism" was invented by Kyler Maisey (Anchorage, Alaska).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Locking mechanisms are designed to retain gates or other passageways in a locked and an unlocked position as a way to pass through a gate in a barrier or boundary, such as a fence, that encloses a space. A rotatable locking arm is attached to the gate while its neighboring fence section has a catch secured to it. When the locking arm is radially rotated to a secured, locked position, it is retained in an enclosed channel of the catch. Any ground heave or movem...