ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,272, issued on July 28, was assigned to Schlage Lock Co. LLC (Carmel, Ind.).

"Door fault identification" was invented by Daniel Langenberg (Zionsville, Ind.) and Nathanael L. Thomas (Carmel, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method according to one embodiment includes receiving sensor data from a plurality of sensors of a door device associated with a door, analyzing the sensor data to determine behavior data indicative of a behavior of the door device, and comparing the behavior data to a plurality of representative data associated with a plurality of door faults to determine a corresponding likelihood that the sensor data corre...