US Patent Issued to Assa Abloy Entrance Systems on June 17 for "Method and apparatus for operating an automatic door system" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,578, issued on June 17, was assigned to Assa Abloy Entrance Systems AB (Landskrona, Sweden).

"Method and apparatus for operating an automatic door system" was invented by Marco Hauri (Galgenen, Switzerland) and Alexander Beck (Zurich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An improved method and an improved apparatus for operating an automatic door system are distinguished by the following features, inter alia: -a sensor device (9) is used, which implements a monitoring region (19) assigned to and/or disposed upstream of the leaves (1; 1a, 1b) for the detection of objects (P, G) which are situated and/or moving in said monitoring region (19),...