US Patent Issued to Automatic Technology (Australia) on July 29 for "Operator assembly for movable barrier" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,120, issued on July 29, was assigned to Automatic Technology (Australia) Pty Ltd (Victoria, Australia).

"Operator assembly for movable barrier" was invented by Raymond Hawkins (Victoria, Australia), Kanav Gupta (Victoria, Australia), Travis Smith (Victoria, Australia) and Grant Nicholls (Victoria, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An operator for a movable barrier includes an output drive to transfer drive to the movable barrier. The output drive comprises a rotating crown wheel with an outer face carrying a plurality of shaped attachment portions, each attachment portion configured to receive an output drive extension element...