Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Lockout management systems and methods with multi-keyholder electronic locking devices
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Application No.: US16430250Application Date: 2019-06-03
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Publication No.: US11098500B2Publication Date: 2021-08-24
- Inventor: David P. Gengler , Sean Louis Calkins , Kenneth Richard Goldthorpe , Kyle Blackburn Johnson
- Applicant: NOKE, INC.
- Applicant Address: US UT Lehi
- Assignee: NOKE, INC.
- Current Assignee: NOKE, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US UT Lehi
- Agency: Barnes & Thornburg LLP
- Agent Jason Bernstein
- Main IPC: E05B67/22
- IPC: E05B67/22 ; G07C9/00 ; E05B47/06 ; E05B49/00 ; E05B47/00 ; E05B67/06

Abstract:
This disclosure provides systems and methods for lockout-tagout procedures and systems supporting the same, including, without limitation, locking devices that can store and be locked simultaneously by multiple keyholders. In various embodiments, a single user can add multiple keyholders to a locking device. The user may not be able to remove anyone as a keyholder except himself or herself. Thus, the locking device may remain in a locked state until each of the added keyholders applies their digital key, password, PIN, and/or other personal identifying information to unlock the locking device by removing themselves as a keyholder.
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