ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,524, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to BODE-DIE TUR GMBH (Kassel, Germany).
"Guide device and door system" was invented by Lars Linnenkohl (Staufenberg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A guide device having, a guide rail and a runner, which engages at least in part in the guide rail and is guided in a linearly movable manner in the guide rail via a recirculating ball bearing. The balls associated with the recirculating ball bearing are arranged in at least one ball row and guided in at least one ball raceway. The balls associated with a ball row are each guided in a ball raceway composed of two partial ball raceways. The firs...