ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,675, issued on June 24, was assigned to Royal Boon Edam International B.V. (Edam, Netherlands).

"Door arrangement" was invented by Mark de Jong (Edam, Netherlands) and Chris Weel (Edam, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A door arrangement including a door frame profile that defines an opening in a passageway. The door arrangement includes at least one door which is openable in opposite directions of the passageway, and which at least one door is suspended with one or more hinges from the door frame profile. The one or more hinges are mounted on the door frame profile outside the opening in the passageway."

The patent was fi...