ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,427, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Tyco Fire & Security GmbH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).
"Keyless puck lock apparatus and system" was invented by Philip J. Ufkes (Sullivan's Island, S.C.) and Matthew Frank Trapani (Deerfield, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A keyless puck lock apparatus with wireless communications and power interfaces. Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a keyless puck lock system enabling a low cost and high security solution that is difficult to tamper with and defeat. In the preferred embodiment of the present invention, the system uses a keyless puck lock assembly that includes a ha...