US Patent Issued to Overhead Door on June 30 for "Breakout crawl arrester" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,005, issued on June 30, was assigned to Overhead Door Corp. (Lewisville, Texas).

"Breakout crawl arrester" was invented by Frank Isioma Edokpayi (Corpus Christi, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A breakout door system is provided which may include: a door frame; a first door configured to selectively slide and pivot between an open and closed position slide position and an opened and closed pivot position with respect to the door frame; a crawl arrester configured to move between a deployed position when the first door is not in a closed pivot position and a stowed position when the first door is in a closed pivot position, the c...