US Patent Issued to Schlage Lock on May 19 for "Modular cylindrical lockset" (Indian, New Zealander, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,043, issued on May 19, was assigned to Schlage Lock Co. LLC (Carmel, Ind.).

"Modular cylindrical lockset" was invented by Kenton H. Barker (Colorado Springs, Colo.), Subbiah Gopalakrishnan (Trivandrum, India), David J. Hurlbert (Manitou Springs, Colo.), Kasey Wachtendorf (Colorado Springs, Colo.), Snehil Solanki (Colorado Springs, Colo.), Dilip Bangaru (Bangalore, India), Austin M. Roup (Woodland Park, Colo.) and Rakesh Murali (Auckland, New Zealand).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exemplary product line system includes a common platform and a plurality of component families, each of which includes a plurality of interchangeable comp...