ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,772, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to DORMAKABA DEUTSCHLAND GMBH (Ennepetal, Germany).

"Method for operating a door actuator" was invented by Frank Wegner (Ennepetal, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a door actuator of a pivot leaf door, having a pivotable door leaf, includes at least the following steps: performing a pivot movement of the door leaf; and identifying an interaction between the door leaf and a person and determining a correction value for the pivot movement of the door leaf based on the interaction and correcting future pivot movements of the door leaf by the correction value. A door actu...