US Patent Issued to FAAC S. P.A. on Feb. 24 for "System for detection of the position of the closing leaf for a barrier during its handling" (Italian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,016, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to FAAC S. P.A. (Zola Predosa, Italy).

"System for detection of the position of the closing leaf for a barrier during its handling" was invented by Daniel Perez (Foothill Ranch, Calif.), Danilo Aceto (Zola Predosa, Italy) and Lanfranco Solmi (Bologna, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for detecting the movement conditions of the leaf closing a barrier, the leaf being able to occlude a delimited opening or passage and in which the leaf itself is moved by a motor whose rotation shaft is associated with a motion transmission mechanism to the leaf. On the motor is present a first device fo...