US Patent Issued to Illinois Tool Works on Feb. 10 for "Actuating mechanism for actuating covers for vehicles" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,132, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).

"Actuating mechanism for actuating covers for vehicles" was invented by Tobias Gopfert (Wurzburg, Germany), Matthias Hegwein (Ippesheim, Germany), Thomas Lechner-Watzlik (Weikersheim, Germany), Joachim Oberst (GroBrinderfeld, Germany) and Roland Och (Rottendorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described is an actuating mechanism for actuating a cover of a vehicle. The cover is reversibly movable between a closed position where the cover is arranged flush with a vehicle outer shell and an open position where the cover is arranged at least partial...