US Patent Issued to Schlage Lock on Feb. 24 for "Door hardware noise reduction and evaluation" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,015, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Schlage Lock Co. LLC (Carmel, Ind.).

"Door hardware noise reduction and evaluation" was invented by Aaron P. McKibben (Fishers, Ind.), Gregory Musselman (Indianapolis), Brian C. Eickhoff (Danville, Ind.), Paul R. Arlinghaus (Fishers, Ind.), Vijayakumar Mani (Bangalore, India), Benjamin L. Miller (Indianapolis) and Saagar Mohammed (Alappuzha, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example exit device includes a mounting assembly configured for mounting to a door, a pushbar movably mounted to the mounting assembly, a latchbolt mounted to the mounting assembly for movement between an extended pos...