US Patent Issued to Zipwall on Sept. 8 for "Self-closing entryway partition" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,551, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Zipwall LLC (Arlington, Mass.).

"Self-closing entryway partition" was invented by Jeffrey P. Whittemore (Arlington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for an entryway includes: a sheet of material having a top, a bottom, a left side, and a right side, and a sleeve at the top of the sheet of material. The sheet of material has an opening extending to the bottom of the sheet of material between the left side and the right side of the sheet of material from a position below the sleeve. The opening has a left seam and a right seam, wherein a first magnet is positioned at the left sea...