ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,178, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Legacy Barricades Inc. (Caledonia, Mich.).

"Emergency egress safety system" was invented by Rickie Kelch (Caledonia, Mich.), Hunter Seelbinder (Fenton, Mich.) and Debra Kelch (Caledonia, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An emergency egress safety system for a door to a protected room, the emergency egress safety system includes a base, the base for straddling an edge of a door and having a first portion for locating on a side of the door facing outside the protected room and a second portion for locating on a side of the door facing the protected room, an arm mounted relative to the base, t...