US Patent Issued to Schlage Lock on June 23 for "Recentering adapters for exit device assemblies" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,849, issued on June 23, was assigned to Schlage Lock Co. LLC (Carmel, Ind.).

"Recentering adapters for exit device assemblies" was invented by Nagesh Varadaraju (Karnataka, India), Aaron P. Mckibben (Fishers, Ind.) and Joshua Boudrot (Fishers, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A recentering adapter for biasing a position of at least a drive spindle coupled to a first cam and a tailpiece coupled to a second cam of an exit device assembly. The recentering adapter can include a support plate having one or more protrusions and a cam having one or more arms. At least one leg of a biasing element can engage an arm of the cam as the cam i...