ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,039, issued on April 21, was assigned to TAIWAN FU HSING INDUSTRIAL Co. LTD. (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan).
"Rekeyable lock" was invented by Chao-Ming Huang (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan) and Chi-Ming Chen (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rekeyable lock includes a lock casing formed with a lock cylinder hole, a pin replacing hole and a plurality of first pin holes; a lock cylinder rotatably arranged in the lock cylinder hole and formed with a plurality of second pin holes; a pin set including a plurality of first pins respectively accommodated in the first pin holes, and a plurality of second pins respectively accommoda...