ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,090, issued on July 1, was assigned to ASSA ABLOY (Schweiz) AG (Richterswil, Switzerland).
"Seal device" was invented by Andreas Brandle (Winterthur, Switzerland) and Fabian Zala (Dietlikon, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A seal device for a door with a pivotable door leaf includes a drop-down seal for arrangement on or in the door leaf. The drop-down seal has a housing profile rail, a sealing strip which can be raised and lowered relative to the housing profile rail, a lowering mechanism for raising and lowering the sealing strip, and an actuating part, wherein the actuating part actuates the lowering mechanism when the d...