US Patent Issued to SUPRA (UK) on Oct. 20 for "Lock" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,768,202, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to SUPRA (UK) Ltd. (Worchestershire, Great Britain).

"Lock" was invented by Robert Williams (Worcestershire, Great Britain) and David Lee Ogden (Worcestershire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lock (100) comprising a plurality of buttons (111), each button (111) having an axis along which each of the buttons (111) may be axially pressed between an un-pressed position and a pressed position, a locking plate (120), an actuator (114) configured to drive the locking plate (120): a locking mechanism (122) having an unlocked and a plurality of locked states, the plurality of locked states...