US Patent Issued to ASSA ABLOY Entrance Systems on July 15 for "Automatic door with a hinged swinging partial door" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,494, issued on July 15, was assigned to ASSA ABLOY Entrance Systems AB (Landskrona, Sweden).

"Automatic door with a hinged swinging partial door" was invented by Jeffrey Wolfe (Monroe, N.C.) and Thomas Epke (Monroe, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A door assembly may include a first sidelite configured to be operably coupled to a first doorjamb, a second sidelite configured to be operably coupled to a second door jamb where the first and second sidelites are disposed in a common plane and define a door opening between the first and second sidelites, a first sliding panel, a second sliding panel where the first and second sliding ...