US Patent Issued to ENDURA PRODUCTS on April 8 for "Sliding door unit and components for the same" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,236, issued on April 8, was assigned to ENDURA PRODUCTS LLC (Colfax, N.C.).

"Sliding door unit and components for the same" was invented by Bruce Procton (Greensboro, N.C.), Michael K. Mitchell (Winston-Salem, N.C.) and Tomasz Jaskiewicz (Oak Ridge, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sliding door unit has a mounting frame and an active door panel mounted in and capable of sliding relative to the mounting frame. The active door panel has a face including a panel portion and a glazing portion. The glazing portion comprises less than 65% of a surface area of the face."

The patent was filed on April 2, 2021, under Application No. 17/...