US Patent Issued to Schlage Lock on June 16 for "Capacitive touch keypad with antenna surrounding keypad" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,922, issued on June 16, was assigned to Schlage Lock Co. LLC (Carmel, Ind.).

"Capacitive touch keypad with antenna surrounding keypad" was invented by Jenna Lopez (Indianapolis), Maxwell Watson (Lakewood, Colo.), Sukanya Ranganathan (Breslau, Canada) and Frank A. Nardelli (Indianapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exemplary an access control device generally includes a keypad assembly, an antenna, and a controller. The keypad assembly includes a capacitive touch keypad matrix, and the antenna is substantially coplanar with the capacitive touch keypad matrix. The controller is connected with each of the keypad assembly and the an...