ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,557, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to BEA SA (Angleur, Belgium).
"Automatic door" was invented by Emmanuel Eubelen (Dalhem, Belgium) and Mauro Musso (Grace-Hollogne, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an automatic door and method for controlling an automatic door (10), comprising a door controller unit (70) for controlling a door, acting on a door drive; further comprising a monitoring system (11) comprising at least two door sensors (12, 32) mounted on two opposite sides of the door, as seen in passage direction, where each of said sensors (12, 32) comprises a scanning unit (16, 36) that monitors a senso...