US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Oct. 20 for "Two-step hinge assembly for a door cover" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,768,209, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Two-step hinge assembly for a door cover" was invented by Kangsun Choi (Anyang-si, South Korea), Junghoon Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Jongseok Yoon (Seoul, South Korea) and Yongho Cho (Incheon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A two-step hinge assembly for a door cover that provides access to an opening defined by a body panel includes a hinge inlet attached to the door cover, a hinge neck rotatably mounted to the body panel about a main axis of rotation, a retaining member actuated between an engaged position and a disengaged position, an...