US Patent Issued to AIRDRI on Sept. 15 for "Automatic closing door proximity detector" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,300, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to AIRDRI Ltd. (Eynsham, Great Britain).

"Automatic closing door proximity detector" was invented by Malcolm John Butler-Miles (Eynsham, Great Britain) and Allan Robert Wiggins (Eynsham, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a proximity detection system (10) for detecting an object (O) in a detection volume (V) comprising: a first and a second boundary member (11,12), defining a plane (P); The first boundary member (11) facing and movable relative to the second boundary member (12) and; the first boundary member (11) comprising a detector (20); the detector ...