ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,623, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to AUMOVIO Germany GmbH (Frankfurt am Main, Germany).
"Method for operating a motor-actuatable tailgate of a motor vehicle" was invented by Erwin Kessler (Saulgau, Germany) and Beat Bauer (Friedrichshafen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for operating a motor-actuatable tailgate of a motor vehicle, the motor of which can be activated or deactivated controlledly by actuation of an actuating element of an operating element, a control unit ascertains whether the actuating element is actuated for a predetermined period of time or by a predetermined actuation sequence and at the sa...