US Patent Issued to Masonite on Sept. 8 for "Smart door, system and method for configuring door and system peripheral devices" (Michigan, Massachusetts, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,582, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Masonite Corp. (Tampa, Fla.).

"Smart door, system and method for configuring door and system peripheral devices" was invented by Alex Bodurka (Portage, Mich.), Ben Docksteader (Custer, Wis.) and Paul Summerson (Monson, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure describe a door, system and method providing a configured smart door platform with plural smart devices provided in one or more of a door slab, an outer door frame and trim or brickmold."

The patent was filed on Sept. 11, 2024, under Application No. 18/882,126.

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