US Patent Issued to Assa Abloy Entrance Systems on May 20 for "Space saving mechanism for installation of swing door operator" (Swedish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,681, issued on May 20, was assigned to Assa Abloy Entrance Systems AB (Landskrona, Sweden).

"Space saving mechanism for installation of swing door operator" was invented by Sven-Gunner Soderqvist (Vallakra, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clamp (1) for attaching a component (3) to a back plate (2), said clamp (1) comprises two clamp members (11, 12), the clamp members (11, 12) being connected by a fastener (13) configured to apply a force at least in a direction which brings the clamp members (11, 12) closer together, and wherein each clamp member (11, 12) is configured to cooperate with a retaining shoulder (31) of the compo...