US Patent Issued to Intelligent Entry Machines on May 27 for "Retrofit gate operator with adjustable idler sprockets" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,853, issued on May 27, was assigned to Intelligent Entry Machines LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Retrofit gate operator with adjustable idler sprockets" was invented by Walter Parsadayan (Newport Coast, Calif.) and Peter Parsadayan (Newport Coast, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gate operator has one or more vertically adjustable idler sprockets that allow to correct for a vertical offset between a gate bracket and the idler sprockets. In preferred aspects, the idler sprockets and a motor of the gate operator are movably coupled to a mounting structure via respective mounting interfaces."

The patent was filed on Feb. 24, 2022, under...