US Patent Issued to ASSA ABLOY Entrance Systems on Oct. 28 for "Control systems for operation of loading dock equipment, and associated methods of manufacture and use" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,426, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to ASSA ABLOY Entrance Systems AB (Landskrona, Sweden).

"Control systems for operation of loading dock equipment, and associated methods of manufacture and use" was invented by Richard K. Hoofard (Dallas), Brett A. Walford (Corinth, Texas), Stephen Kosek (Fort Worth, Texas) and Daryl Day (Frisco, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and associated methods for controlling operation of loading dock equipment are described herein. In some embodiments, the system and associated methods can be used to control operation of loading dock equipment (e.g., a vehicle restraint, a dock door, a dock le...