US Patent Issued to HOPPE Holding on Aug. 11 for "Automatic shootbolt" (Wisconsin Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,006, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to HOPPE Holding AG (Mustair, Switzerland).

"Automatic shootbolt" was invented by Oscar Osciel Longoria (Fort Atkinson, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automatic shootbolt system or use with a door is provided. The automatic shootbolt system includes a strike and an automatic shootbolt assembly. The automatic shootbolt assembly includes a frame, a shootbolt slidably carried, an actuation lever slidably carried, and a shootbolt latch that acts between the shootbolt and the actuation lever. Actuation of the actuation lever from an extended state towards a retracted state transitions the shoot...