ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,507, issued on May 26, was assigned to Nabtesco Corp. (Tokyo).

"Automatic door maintenance support system, automatic door maintenance support apparatus, automatic door apparatus, automatic door maintenance support method, and program" was invented by Tomohiro Hamakubo (Tokyo), Yoshinari Kiyomasa (Tokyo) and Daisuke Kimachi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automatic door maintenance support system includes an acquirer that acquires state information of a motor which drives a door of an automatic door in a first speed control state in which the door is maintained at a predetermined first speed, and a specifier that specifies inf...