ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,986, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Schlage Lock Co. LLC (Carmel, Ind.).
"Rotation converter" was invented by Phaneendra Kumar (Bangalore, India), Nagesh Varadaraju (Bangalore, India) and Aaron P. McKibben (Fishers, Ind.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exemplary rotation converter includes an input component, an output component, and an intermediate component engaged between the input component and the output component. The input component is rotatable from an input component home position in each of a first direction and an opposite second direction. The intermediate component is configured to move to an actuated position in r...