US Patent Issued to AUDI on May 19 for "Method for operating a lock arrangement for a motor vehicle and corresponding lock arrangement" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,057, issued on May 19, was assigned to AUDI AG (Ingolstadt, Germany).

"Method for operating a lock arrangement for a motor vehicle and corresponding lock arrangement" was invented by Andre Schubert (Wellheim, Germany), Bernd Ellemann (Sachsenheim, Germany) and Matthias Hahn (Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a lock arrangement for a motor vehicle, the lock arrangement has a lock which fixes a vehicle flap movably mounted on the motor vehicle in a closed position when the lock is in the locking position, holds it in the closed position when the lock is in the unlocking position or relea...