US Patent Issued to Mettler-Toledo on June 16 for "Guideway for guiding a sliding door member" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,168, issued on June 16, was assigned to Mettler-Toledo GmbH (Greifensee, Switzerland).

"Guideway for guiding a sliding door member" was invented by Sandra Ehrbar (Volketswil, Switzerland), Alice Buchmann (Uster, Switzerland) and Beat Meister (Nanikon, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A guideway receives and guides a carriage and includes a guideway body having a first and second longitudinal end and a longitudinally extending clear channel which is bordered by a wall of the guideway body and opens at the first longitudinal end. A stop member terminates the guideway at the first longitudinal end and includes a crossbar and t...