US Patent Issued to ABC TRANSFER on June 3 for "Door assembly allowing sealed transfer between two enclosed volumes" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,188, issued on June 3, was assigned to ABC TRANSFER (Tours, France).

"Door assembly allowing sealed transfer between two enclosed volumes" was invented by Julien Felix (Tours, France), Jean-Luc Schneider (Sligo, France) and Thierry Girard (Tours, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a door assembly (1) allowing a sealed transfer between two enclosed volumes, comprising a flange (2) arranged to delimit an opening in one of the enclosed volumes, and a door (4) that extends along an axis (C) and is hingedly fastened to/mounted on the flange (2) so as to move from a closed position in which the door (4) closes th...