ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,368, issued on July 14, was assigned to Assa Abloy Entrance Systems AB (Landskrona, Sweden).
"Detector module for use in an entrance system" was invented by Roger Dreyer (Bjarred, Sweden) and Stefan Paulsson (Odakra, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detector module (20) for use in an entrance system (100) comprises one or more light-emitting units (30a-n) being configured to provide status information related to the entrance system (100). The detector module (20) is configured to detect at least one change in said status information provided by the one or more light-emitting units (30a-n). The detector module (20) is further c...