US Patent Issued to ASSA ABLOY Access and Egress Hardware Group on Sept. 29 for "Dogging indicator for door exit device" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,612, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to ASSA ABLOY Access and Egress Hardware Group Inc. (New Haven, Conn.).

"Dogging indicator for door exit device" was invented by Darren C. Eller (Madison, Conn.), Andrew S. Geraci (Middlefield, Conn.), Ryan Piantek (Higganum, Conn.) and Richard D. Sangster Jr. (Madison, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dogging mechanism for an exit device may include a dogging indicator configured to pivot about a pivot axis over a travel path between a first position and a second position, where the travel path comprises a midpoint between the first position and the second position. The dogging mechanism ...