ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,327, issued on June 2, was assigned to ASSA ABLOY AB (Stockholm).

"Control arrangement for access member, and access member system" was invented by Johan Von Matern (Taby, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control arrangement (20) for controlling movements of an access member (14), the control arrangement comprising a base structure (22); a drive member (32) rotatable about a rotation axis (28); an input member (38) arranged to be driven along an actuation axis (40) by rotation of the drive member, and arranged to move in a lateral direction (74, 76); an output member (50) arranged to be driven by the input member along the actu...