US Patent Issued to Assa Abloy Entrance Systems on Sept. 16 for "Automatic door assembly having a sensor device, and method for operating an automatic door assembly of this kind" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,191, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Assa Abloy Entrance Systems AB (Landskrona, Sweden).

"Automatic door assembly having a sensor device, and method for operating an automatic door assembly of this kind" was invented by Alexander Beck (Zurich) and Marco Hauri (Galgenen, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automatic door system (1) comprises at least one door leaf (2a, 2b, 2c, 2d) which can be moved by a drive apparatus (6). A control device (7) is designed to control the drive apparatus (6) in such a way that the latter moves the at least one door leaf (2a, 2b, 2c, 2d). A sensor device (8) comprises a first area scan ...