US Patent Issued to INTEVA PRODUCTS on July 21 for "Vehicle door latch with double lock function" (Mexican Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,050, issued on July 21, was assigned to INTEVA PRODUCTS LLC (Troy, Mich.).

"Vehicle door latch with double lock function" was invented by Carlos Tostado (Juarez, Mexico) and Eduardo Estrada (Juarez, Mexico).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle latch, including: a first locking mechanism configured to disengage an outside release lever of the vehicle latch from a pawl of the vehicle latch; and a double lock mechanism configured to disengage an inside release lever from the pawl of the vehicle latch such that when the double lock mechanism is actuated into a locked state, movement of the inside release lever will not release the veh...