ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,949, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to D&D-SW LLC (Temecula, Calif.).
"Automated window mechanism with security feature" was invented by David R. Hall (Provo, Utah), Jerome Miles (Spanish Fork, Utah), Mark Madsen (Provo, Utah) and Christopher Jones (Spanish Fork, Utah).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated window mechanism is disclosed having an electric motor attached to a sliding panel of a window configured to open and close the window by moving the sliding panel. The electric motor has a locked state in which the electric motor and sliding panel are stationary. The automated window mechanism also includes a monitor configur...