ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,833, issued on March 3, was assigned to Gym Door Repairs Inc. (Great River, N.Y.).
"Critical area safety device and methods of use" was invented by Stephen F. Cole (Delray Beach, Fla.) and Kathleen Cole (Delray Beach, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for maintaining a folding operable wall comprising: (a) recording a template of a biological trait of an authorized individual into a biometric verification system; (b) saving the template in a database; (c) capturing a new record; (d) comparing the new record against the template; (e) confirming the identity of the authorized individual if the new record is substantially sim...