ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,025, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to SEYSEN GMBH & Co. KG (Germany).

"Emergency opening device for a lifting gate assembly, lifting gate assembly and method for opening a lifting gate assembly with an emergency opening device" was invented by Manfred Seysen (Grafelfing, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An emergency opening device for a lifting door as well as a lifting door with such an emergency opening device and a method for operating such an emergency opening device are provided. The emergency opening device has a driver, a movement element, an elongate drive member and a locking element. The driver is rotatably mountabl...