US Patent Issued to Schlage Lock on June 30 for "Rotation converter" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,997, issued on June 30, was assigned to Schlage Lock Co. LLC (Carmel, Ind.).

"Rotation converter" was invented by Nagesh Varadaraju (Bangalore, India) and Aaron P. McKibben (Fishers, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotation converter according to certain embodiments generally includes a case, an input member, a shuttle, and an output member. The input member is rotatably mounted to the case, and is rotatable from an input member home position in each of a first rotational direction and a second rotational direction. The shuttle is movably mounted in the case, and is engaged with the input member such that rotation of the input ...