ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,010, issued on March 25, was assigned to Automatic Technology (Australia) Pty Ltd (Australia).
"Clutch assembly" was invented by Toan Dang (Keysborough, Australia) and George Matthews (Keysborough, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clutch assembly for a roller door operator, the clutch assembly providing selective engagement with a drive wheel, the clutch assembly comprising: a rotatable shaft rotatable relative to the drive wheel; a clutch disc supported in a clutch lever and arranged to rotate with the rotatable shaft, the clutch disc and clutch lever configured to rotate relative to one another around the axis of rotatio...