ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,828, issued on April 29, was assigned to D&D-SW LLC (Temecula, Calif.).
"Automated window mechanism with motor lockdown" was invented by David R. Hall (Provo, Utah), Jerome Miles (Spanish Fork, Utah), Mark Madsen (Provo, Utah) and Christopher Jones (Spanish Fork, Utah).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated window mechanism having an electric motor attached to a sliding panel of a window configured to open and close the window by moving the sliding panel. The electric motor has a locked state in which the electric motor and sliding panel are stationary. The automated window mechanism also includes a monitor configured to detect an...