ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,996, issued on June 30, was assigned to Gilgen Door Systems AG (Schwarzenburg, Switzerland).
"Locking device for a door" was invented by Andreas Pfeuti (Riffenmatt, Switzerland), Yanick Bapst (Rechthalten, Switzerland) and Beat Dutsch (Zollikofen, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a locking device (1) for a door, in particular for a sliding door (10), comprising at least one door leaf (11). The locking device has a housing part (2) and a locking element (5) which is held by the housing part (2) and which is used to lock and unlock the at least one door leaf (11) in a closed or open position. The lock...