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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 07, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2008
Applicant:
Brian Frederic Butler, Chicago, IL (US);
Inventor:
Brian Frederic Butler, Chicago, IL (US);
Assignee:
The Chamberlain Group, Inc., Elmhurst, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 10/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A first moveable barrier operator is actuated to move a first moveable barrier and a light beam is encoded with operational information regarding the first movable barrier operator. The encoded light beam is transmitted from an emitter associated with the first moveable barrier operator to a first detector associated with the second moveable barrier operator. The second moveable barrier operator may be subsequently operated at least in part according to the operational information encoded in the light beam.