US Patent Issued to STENDALS EL on Oct. 20 for "Locking device with a catch for preventing rotation of a latch bolt" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,768,196, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to STENDALS EL AB (Vasteras, Sweden).

"Locking device with a catch for preventing rotation of a latch bolt" was invented by Jan Stendal (Vasteras, Sweden), David Stendal (Bromma, Sweden) and Bjorn Thoren Lindgren (Vasteras, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a locking device comprising an elongated face plate (30) for mounting on a door, the face plate comprising an opening (31) for a latch bolt, a latch bolt (10) having a bolt body (11) with a first end (11A) and a second end (11B), the bolt body (11) comprising a first surface (12) and a second surface (13) th...