ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,252, issued on July 1, was assigned to Hormann KG Antriebstechnik (Steinhagen, Germany).

"Method for remotely operating an automatic building or enclosure closure, radio remote control transmitter therefor, building or enclosure closure system, and computer program" was invented by Thomas Behnke (Bunde, Germany) and Thomas Lokotsch (Beckum, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to enable higher operational and manipulation security in the radio remote control of building or enclosure closures by simple means, the invention provides a method for remote control of an automatic building or enclosure closure (12.1, 12.2, 12.3), ...