ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,967, issued on March 17, was assigned to GOODRICH Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Solenoid actuated semi-automatic auxiliary guide assembly" was invented by Elvis Jack Pereira (Bangalore, India) and Sayooj Adavalath Puthiyaveettil (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An auxiliary guide assembly may include a hub, a head including a first guiding surface and a first overriding surface, the head rotatably coupled to the hub, a solenoid coupled to the hub and configured to receive an electric current, and an armature magnetically coupled to the solenoid, the armature being configured to engage the head when in the armature is an ...