US Patent Issued to Adams Rite Aerospace on July 21 for "Delay latch for a door" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,054, issued on July 21, was assigned to Adams Rite Aerospace Inc. (Fullerton, Calif.).

"Delay latch for a door" was invented by Morteza Yadollahi (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a latch assembly for a door. The latch assembly includes a housing defining a cavity, a handle movable relative to the housing, a latch disposed in the cavity, the latch having bolt movable between a locked and an unlocked position and a damping mechanism for delaying movement of the latch, wherein the handle is biased in a first position abutting the bolt to hold the bolt in the locked position, and the handle is movable to a secon...