ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,006, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Michael Reilly Design LLC (Calverton, N.Y.).

"Low profile multi-point lock drive" was invented by Jeremy Goldstein (Patchogue, N.Y.), Andrew Morse (Altoona, Iowa), Benjamin Edwards (Westhampton Beach, N.Y.), Steve Johnson (Calverton, N.Y.) and Jeffrey Bernath (Calverton, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multipoint lock including a pivoting lock bolt including a fixed pivot point and a sliding pivot point, a translating lock bolt, a linkage coupled to and configured to pivot the pivoting lock bolt and to translate the translating lock bolt, an actuation mechanism configured to actuate the l...